💅 Nail Polish emoji
Aside from tagging nail- and beauty-related images online, the nail polish emoji can serve as a tone marker indicating sass, fanciness, nonchalance, or self-confidence across a variety of digital contexts.
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👯 People With Bunny Ears emoji
The people with bunny ears (partying) emoji is variously used across digital contexts to express a fun, party-loving spirit, communicate festive and friendly sentiments, and mark content dealing with adult entertainment. -
🤷 Person Shrugging emoji
The person shrugging emoji can designate ignorance, indifference, self-acceptance, passive-aggression, annoyance, giving up, or not knowing what to make of something. It could also be a visual form of the one-word response of indifference, “whatever.” -
😉 Winking Face emoji
The winking face emoji is a great go-to emoji for flirtatious situations. Though it's often used to flirt, this emoji is also a useful way to playfully joke or to silently let the reader in… -
💦 Sweat Droplets emoji
In sexual contexts, the sweat droplets emoji is used to depict sexual fluids. Sometimes, this emoji also represents actual sweat or water and is completely unrelated to sex. -
The Original Memes (Before Memes)
The word meme, coined in 1976 by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, goes way beyond social-media pixels. Meme captures the concept of “cultural transmission” of ideas in general, where customs and ideas spread from brain to brain. Which means memes have been around longer than Success Kid or Kermit sipping tea. Wildfire ideas have been around as long as humans have—in fact, discovering fire is …
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barbacoa
Especially associated with Mexican cuisine, barbacoa is a slow-cooking style (mostly for shredded or chopped meats, often beef, pork, or lamb) over an open fire or fire pit. -
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It’s A Doggy Dog World … Or Is it?
Phrases with convincing fakes . . . we bet you've said some of these—we have too!
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Outcry And Other Trending Words On Dictionary.com
Inept was up 186% in searches this week . . . and this time it’s about somebody else’s dysfunctional government and leadership team. The Times helped us explain this one: “Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister, and his deputy, Barnaby Joyce, traded extraordinary public barbs yesterday over an adulterous affair that has gripped the nation and fractured the government. Mr Turnbull said his deputy had ‘appalled everyone’ …
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Germophobe, Collector, Budgeter: Which Type Of Traveler Are You?
There are different types of travelers, and we’ve created some names for a few of them. Whether you’re a minimalist, budgeter, collector, storyteller, or germophobe, traveling is your game, right? But, which type of traveler are you? Think you know—well, take our personality test just to be sure . . . . Don’t forget to share your results (so your friends and family will know …
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Right On: Slang Words From The Copacetic 70s
These phrases became especially popular by artists & cool cats in the '70s.
