/r/thereshouldbeaword

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Dedicated to those things for which there should be a word. A gender-neutral word for aunt/uncle. A word for people who threaten to leave if the election doesn't go their way. That kind of thing.

Dedicated to those things for which there should be a word. A gender-neutral word for aunt/uncle. A word for people who threaten to leave if the election doesn't go their way. That kind of thing.

Offical Dictionary At https://tsbaw.github.io

Inspired by this comment from this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/9ttd5a/there_needs_to_be_a_term_for_the_massive_and/e8z26ux/

/r/thereshouldbeaword

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There should be a word for when you don't want to click on something or you use private mode because you don't want to mess up your algorithm.

3 Comments
2024/03/01
02:33 UTC

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For when women cross their arms and move their head side to side

Mostly when they are indignant or angry about something.

0 Comments
2023/12/13
18:09 UTC

3

For that weird feeling you get in your feet when you haven't moved in a long time.

5 Comments
2022/07/20
16:22 UTC

6

You know how there should be a gender neutral word for aunt/uncle?

Well here you goooooooooo : Pibling

Yeah, that’s it. That’s the word.

Sounds like Piglin tbh.

1 Comment
2021/12/20
20:55 UTC

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The efforts to remain intentionally ignorant about something relatively unimportant (ie wine), often to allow continued enjoyment that depends on ignorance

6 Comments
2021/06/30
13:54 UTC

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When you are trying to click a link and the page reformats so that you actually end up clicking a different link.

7 Comments
2021/04/30
16:14 UTC

9

For snow that falls on or after April 1st.

4 Comments
2021/04/01
20:36 UTC

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TSBAW for learning a celebrity exists only after they do something terrible.

8 Comments
2021/03/31
15:15 UTC

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The feeling of horseradish or wasabi

It is not "hot" or "spicy," but it is a unique sort of sharp tang that irritated the nose and eyes.

3 Comments
2021/03/28
21:55 UTC

7

Humanist Gender Neutral English

I'm curious what people think of this construct / concept:
https://posilicious.com/2020/08/27/gender-neutral-english-new-humanist-model/

0 Comments
2021/03/27
15:25 UTC

15

TSBAW for when you put your leg in a certain position and it starts twitching automatically

3 Comments
2020/07/05
01:51 UTC

6

There should be a word for exclusive or

To start, inclusive or is when it can be A or B or both, exlusive is A or B but NOT both.

In english, there is no seperate words for these two concepts (other than using inclusive and exclusive). Most people use the word or to mean exclusive or, we sometimes use "and/or" to denote inclusive or even though people will tell you that its bad english (which it is but people also imediately know what you mean so its still useful).

There should be a word for exlusive or, preferably one sylable like or. The shorthand for exlusive or is already xor, but there isn't a particularly elegant way of pronouncing it, especially not one thats been agreed on. I usually hear 'ex-or' but I would be willing to hear an argument for why you'd pronounce it 'zor'. Any other ideas?

4 Comments
2020/07/04
14:02 UTC

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TSBAW for losing something small only to find it in a logical and obvious place

1 Comment
2020/06/28
18:04 UTC

2

For Quater but in terms of Thirds

Yeah you could say third or thirds, but I feel it’s so common that it could use its own name.

6 Comments
2020/06/22
15:57 UTC

13

There should be a word for when something being darkened by water.

Ya know if you dip a rock in water or are filling up a pot and the parts affected by water are darker, there should be a word that.

4 Comments
2020/06/21
22:47 UTC

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TSBAW for a building with many many basement levels, ie. an upside down skyscraper

Subscraper?

Mantle Mansion?

6 Comments
2020/05/16
18:08 UTC

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Onism is defined as the awareness/frustration of realizing how little of a world we would experience. TSBAW which describes the opposite. That is the joy of multiple experiences, multiple places at a time. If not can we invent one?

Hi

For a better description of Onism, please see: https://www.seeker.com/onism-the-awareness-of-how-little-of-the-world-youll-experience-1792530794.html

i always felt that in this lifetime I would experience very little of this world. Maybe there was a way I can visually see a lot more places than I do now. If someone via tech or any other thing can provide such an experience, what would it be called? Thanks for your help.

4 Comments
2020/03/18
23:05 UTC

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TSBAW for the fear that the wind will blow away your cash before you can grab it at the ATM.

3 Comments
2020/03/14
13:56 UTC

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TSBAW for when popularity is seen as a negative quality.

3 Comments
2020/02/25
13:15 UTC

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TSBAW: "someother"

When you use the word "someone" twice in a sentence but you imply that it's a different person each time, it can be confusing. For example:

"Someone took someone's car."

The solution:

"Someone took someother's car."

It can also be use to emphasize that "someone" is different from any other previously mentioned person.

"Bob will attack someother tonight."

This excludes the possibility that Bob would attack himself.

(Yes, I know that "someone else" is a thing, but look at how "some one" and "an other" got condensed into "someone" and "another")

0 Comments
2020/02/10
17:13 UTC

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TSBAW for "pickuppable"

"Pickuppable" is very awkward, but there's no other word to describe whenever an object in a video game cannot be picked up by the player.

6 Comments
2019/12/19
07:45 UTC

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TSBAW for when you suddenly remember that a sub exists after a long absence.

6 Comments
2019/12/08
15:47 UTC

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TSBAW for when you go to a different store that looks almost like your regular store

Ever go to a new store or restaurant that is set up the same way as the one you always go to? It might give a weird familiar yet different feeling knowing that it's not the place you usually go to.

5 Comments
2019/12/06
18:36 UTC

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TSBAW for the tone in which you say something that is extremely obvious while aware that it is extremely obvious

For example, you're in a video game, and there's a locked door. The only other thing in the room is a key. This word is to describe the tone in which you say "Guess I'll use the key to open the door."

I want to say that it's sarcasm or irony, but I don't feel like those words quite meet the bar.

6 Comments
2019/12/03
21:52 UTC

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TSBAW for both the penis and the testicles in that same way that "vulva" covers exterior female reproductive organs [NSFW]

7 Comments
2019/12/02
03:27 UTC

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TSBAW for discrimination towards humanities students in favor of STEM student supremacy

like racism, sexism, etc. make humanism

"I'm smart too but not at anything math related like physics, computer science, chemistry, etc."

"So what you're trying to say is that you're dumb?"

1 Comment
2019/10/01
15:40 UTC

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There should be a word for the a direct sequel that replaces an already existing direct sequel.

I actually came up with a decent word, but that's just me.

Requel re·quel /ˈrēkwəl/

A direct sequel that replaces an already existing direct sequel.

Halloween (2018) is a requel to Halloween (1978), taking the place of Halloween II (1981)

Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later is a requel to Halloween II (1981), taking the place of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

3 Comments
2019/09/09
07:57 UTC

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TSBAW: Snuckmarkey.

adj. (Fucking) smug, snide and sarky (sarcastic).

n. 25% of comments on Reddit, and 75% of comments on Youtube.

1 Comment
2019/09/08
21:46 UTC

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TSBW's for different groups of fruit like there are for animals

A gaggle of geese, a knot of frogs, a murder of crows, a murmuration of starlings (the best one, objectively). I wish there were also different words for groups of fruit!!! a _____ of strawberries, a _____ of peaches. Bunches is the only word that comes to mind, but I wish there were specific ones, like for animals.

6 Comments
2019/08/25
18:35 UTC

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