Friday, December 09, 2005

[Lexigraphy]

Borked, Miered, and ... ?

Avedon has an amusing addition to the definition of Borking:

mier (v): see borked, but when Republicans do it. Usage: If a president's crony is nominated to an office they are unfit to hold and the crony is also not sufficiently partisan to please the party's most radical right-wingers, the nomination can get miered down.

At the risk of fanning the flames of indecency, I'll offer a couple more.
DeLay (v): 1. to use temporary majority advantage to re-write rules to permanently favor one's political party. 2. to meet in the dead of night to draft legislation too unpopular to pass during working hours, or to hold open a legislative session until bribes have been sufficiently distributed to win passage of unpopular legislation. "It didn't look like he was going to re-DeLay those districts, but in the secret session in the Capitol last night, the Congressman managed to DeLay his party into support."

Frist (v) using one's professional background to mislead and misdirect. "I know Michael Behe's a biochemist, but he's just fristing you on intelligent design."
Fire now your off-color bon mots.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jack-Off (v) Inflected Form(s): Jacked-Off etymology: slang, hyphenated for Jack Abramoff - conservative lobbyist 1. a colloquial term used by lobbyists that indicates a person has successfully laundered money from a non-profit organization. "Yeah, Fred really jacked-off those injuns from up north."

Jeff Alworth said...

Ah, there it is! Good man.

Anonymous said...

Brown (v) Past-tense Browned: To tarnish an organization's reputation by managing with a complete lack of confidence and necessary competence. Often the "browning" person will carry their inefficiences to future endeavours. Example: "I don't get how he's sunk five companies and the new one expects him not to brown up theirs."

Jeff Alworth said...

Nice work, gentlemen