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Word of the Week: Crower

I hope you haven’t been holding your breath since the last WOW (in August 2007). But I’ve got a solid one from Lauren a friend and co-worker (which I can probably combine into a new word like co-friend). Up there with Bevistated and doesn’t require a PhD in the Bachelor. Without further afreddyadu (I’ll stop):

Crower
(noun, verb)
To cry in your shower because you live in a crowded metropolis and don’t want your roommates/neighbors to hear you. Often after tough meeting, or Oprah.

Ex: Deena had watched “The Notebook” with her roommates before, but it had been a brutal day at work and she needed to crower before dinner.

In case you still don’t understand or need some crower assistance…

Tags: Friends, vocabulary

Word of the Week: Christmafy

pronounced christ-mahf-eye

def. To add touches of the Christian holiday to something. Oft-used commercial representations include elves, reindeer, sleighs, poinsettia, snowman, mistletoe and other figures and decorations.

“Let’s Christmafy this print ad and put a Santa hat on the guy’s head!”

And that’s okay for some brands…

Tags: holidays, vocabulary, xmas

Word of the Week: Playa

pronounced pl-eye-yah.

def. Spanish for beach. English for be-ah-ch.
*Not to be confused with playa (pron. play-ah and slang for player).

Sentence. Sorry I’m being such a playa but this has already been a crazy week. Use at your own risk.

Photo: Captain Harris’ son.

Tags: vocabulary

Word of the Week: Sexy-Ugly

Every so often you get a peek into vocabulary of your female counterparts, The Gen wYmen. Granted I’m very late to this and it’s probably not the insider info you were hoping for, but I feel it’s my job to keep other Gen GuYs in the know. Thus, I present, “sexy-ugly.”

Sexy-Ugly (adj.)
Someone who is not conventionally good-looking (or any kind of good-looking in some cases), but possesses an appealing personality, style, or talent, and is thus considered sexually attractive by many. -urbandictionary.com

This term was first dropped like it was hot in the movie Kissing Jessica Stein. Mick Jagger is her example. The flick chicks have a vote going with Edward Norton beating out Adrian Brody for the top spot.

Our equivalent may be a SJP (Sarah Jessica Parker) – if you don’t know that acronym, I can’t help you. But overall I don’t think sexy-ugly translates that well in our male vocabs. (No, not because we can’t grunt it.) Perhaps sexy-bitchy is more real. OMG, SMG is SB – Oh my god, Sarah Michelle Gellar is sexy bitchy. You’d say that – right Jay? Maybe we can all agree on sexy-rich – Oprah and Bill Gates?

So you may never hear it but if nothing else, dropping a Kissing Jessica Stein reference on your latest fling will offset the carpenter jeans you rocked on the last date. Good luck out there.

Tags: celebs, genY, vocabulary

Word of the Week: Bevistated

(bev-i-stated)
Adj.
1. Overwhelmed; confounded; stunned; (more shocked, less awed).
2. Left unmarried and feeling unmarriable.

Sentence: I was genuinely bevistated, so I took my shirt off, ran, and recentered; then sat on a rock in the ‘thinking man’s’ pose.

Tags: realitytv, vocabulary