zombie words

Zombie account:

A bank account  with zero balance or long back forgotten.The word also goes for facebook and mail accounts that we forgot about.

Zombie debt:

It is a debt too old so that the person who lent himself would forget or it could also be a debt that can’t be recollected with legal support becoz it is too old.

Zombie lie:

Even after proving that something is  not true, some lies go on gaining the trust of others. such lies are called Zombie lies.Watch out!

Is love nothing?

BEHIND THE WORD:

Why score zero is called love in tennis was a question that kept my eyes wide open gooogling though I am in ……zzzzzz….. mood after a heavy lunch.www.oxforddictionaries.com  banged with two maybe reasons.

Reason 1:l’ouef is the French word for egg.So as love in French refers to egg and egg resembles cipher, I think the point is made.

Reason 2:’to play for love’ is a phrase meaning to play for just fun and not for winning or anything else.So ‘to play for love’ can be taken as ‘to play for nothing’.And thus love became a hint word for nil or nothing.

5'o clock shadow

  BEHIND THE WORD: 5'o clock shadow
        
 A well kept secret is that the world is full of funny and silly  people trying to hide their good own ridiculous humour just like you and me.With a resolution to lose weight ,we carefully plan our dinner and go with the plan but just after dinner we ride our fridge and eat all that in our mind and in the fridge.Everyone I know has the habit of eating in evening and night.
          
           Some of the English people disliked the habit of eating during evening times.They called it 5’o clock tea or 5’o clock dinner.This phrase quickly got into peoples’mind.So Gem safety Razor Company in an intention to popularise their product used this catchy phrase '5'0 clock shadow' to refer to quick regrowing of beard in the evening after a morning shave.And thus a phrase has been added to the English language.

BLUE... BLUE....BLUE

                                                           

ENGLISH NAMES IT AS:

 

Blue Ice:

This is going to be the easiest definition of all.Ice in blue colour is called blue ice.Next time when you look at glaciers (I do, on T.V) ,do a mini search for them.If by any chance you develop questions of hows and whys ,theories of  crystallisation and scattering have to be explained which is beyond the scope of my blog and myself.

Blue Peter:

Blue Peter is a flag in blue colour with a white square at the center hoisted in ship .It indicates that the ship is ready to sail.Is it because the ocean is icy and blue, the flag is coloured in blue and white?

Blue norther:

It is a strong wind (…wizzzzz…….)that flows over Oklahoma,Texas,Kansas and most Temperate zones that rapidly brings the temperature down.Many say that blue could mean cold and icy since people turn blue in cold. Now look at its other names: Blue Blizzard,Blue whistler,Blue darter .

 

 

PROTEUS PHENOMENON

Behind The Word:

Proteus Phenomenon

                           Once again in our blog while speaking of the stories behind the words,we come again (Tan tadan tadan tadan-introduction music) Greek mythology.In Greek mythology,  Proteus was the god of sea.Sea is ever changing.So is proteus or vice versa.Proteus is capable taking any forms.Ever changing stands as a hint for nothing could be stable so that it could be proved.

                           So any early findings that disprove the already established facts is called Proteus phenomenon.This word is frequently used by researchers.Anyone who aspires to be a scientist  can keep this phrase in their mind.Good luck!

ENGLISH NAMES IT AS

NEW WORDS RELATED TO INTERNET

Nonliner-People who don’t have internet facility.Just the opposite of onliner.

Noogler-New to google  as an employee.

Notspot-Places with no or less signals for net accessibility.Just the opposite of hotspot.

Outernet-media other than internet or traditional media.

Outersharing-Giving more and more personal information about oneself in internet so 

that one might land in trouble.

Webrage- well, you might have experienced.

Sofalise-socialising with the outsiders through internet while you are sitting in the sofa in your home.I think this word tops all.

ENGLISH NAMES IT AS

                                                  

                              NEW WORDS FOR PROFESSIONALS

Crowdworker

It may happen that there could be more people allocated for that job so that each one gets a very small part of the task and so the salary.He/she just becomes a one of the crowd working.

Safe shake

Touching each other’s elbows with a gentle hit like doing cheers with wine glass. That way,it is more hygienic and safer.

Overworking

To earn more money and name and to keep up what is earned, it seems some people themselves develop a desire to work for longer time.

Upskill

Just a word you already might have heard.

IT companies upgrade software versions and upskill the employees.And in course of time, both are outdated.

Viral marketing

A marketing strategy in which the customers’ circle of friends and family are targeted by making the acquired customers talk good of the products and services.

Work -life overload

Newly coined word for the sum of work overload and life’s own difficulties.

Soh Nuu

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JUST NOW EVESDROPPED WORDS:

I'm definitely not going to remember the spelling of these words.Now introducing or maybe eintroduing to you,these words:  cattywhopus and kerfuttle  meaning disorder. Just the word ‘disorder’ is enough for me.

SIMPLE WORDS THAT BAFFLE ME:

If I were intelligent enough to guess if l8 means late l8r would mean later,then I would not probably be baffled by these words.

totes     -    totally

don      -do-on       -    to wear something

dof       -do-off      -     to remove some clothes off

SIMPLER WORDS I DID UNDERSTAND:

obvs     - obviously

whatevs –whatever

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so many easiest words

SMART WORDS

ENGLISH NAMES IT AS:

Here are ‘smart’ words that made their entry in English Dictionary this year 2013.

Fire-smart:

If you haven’t come across this word,guess and then read.

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It means providing all safety measurements to a building against fire accidents.

Smart-cookie:

It means a person who is smart and capable of handling difficult situations .There are two different opinions about the origin of this word.

They say cookie refers to cooks. And cooks did not require a degree or any other course completion before. And ‘smart cookie’ might have originated from them as they needed and possessed only practical skills  and common sense.

Others say cookie refers to women.This word was originally meant to point out their ability to manage difficult situations well. And in course of time, this word is gender-generalised.

Heart- Smart:

Pre-script: This word however has no indications to love or intelligence or intelligent loving.

Script: It means food which is good for heart i.e food with low fat and cholestral.

Post-script:  Take care!bye!

TOUCHY OR NOT

ENGLISH NAMES IT AS:

TOUCHLESS:

“Is yours a touchphone?

Oh no, mine is touchless”

We might be hearing something like that soon.There are people so obsessed with buying,keeping and showing off new gadgets.  The mobile companies should should thank them for now the situation has now become anyone who gets a job with salary not less than Rs. 20,000 are expected to  keep a touch phone  . The news is that touch phone may lose its value as the symbol of status and give way to touchless  ones. Gadgets  with keys only and no touch screen are not touchless . Any gadget  that needs some hand signals rather to touch is a touchless one.

BEHIND THE WORDS:

JUMP THE SHARK

Waste, utter waste or in our slang waste-o-waste.These are the reserved words for commenting on some sort of serials.When everyone almost believed that some serial is facing a disastrous failure, they ae most likely to see some last desperate attempts to keep them stuck with the serial.Jump the shark is a phrase for describing those attempts.

When  a serial called “HAPPY DAYS” faced loss of viewers, one of the character has got to water-ski and jump over a shark as a way to express his bravery.(How lucky our film heroes are.Raising t voice or some punch dialog would mean bravery here.) After this ‘jump the shark’ attempt, the serial made another seven years.

ENGLISH APPATUCKERS

ENGLISH NAMES IT AS:

English dictionaries welcome several words from the common people’s language.New words are always charming.Here are some words that make us wonder how only some people find them when we all  need them.

Floordrobe:

(you can omit reading this.)

I remember my childhood days.I was not exactly a very great and neat child and my parents  used to present atleast one complaint about me to my teachers.Each evening of my school day, after I change my dress my parents had to struggle, threaten and request me to make me fold the uniform that I left on the floor.Looking at this word ,I guess I have lots of people as my company.After a long time, they stopped complaining.I don’t know whether they got tired of complaining or I became a good girl.

Brainstorming:sorry , yes this word is popular and old.But I was about to type blamestorming. I just happened to be a tongue typo.If u are a team worker, then I should probably shut up or you should scroll down.But for those who have no idea (I did not have any idea  at first):

               First some team work is done.Then it gets pretty screwed up.No team member would take responsibility for it.Before they restart the work, the team members gather ,discuss at long to decide who is to be blamed. Suddenly ideas come to them like brainstorming till they are able to find out the one to be blamed.

Laymanise:

If  you are a fan of Grey’s Anatomy, you might remember this scene.After Dr.Yang explains the patient about what he had suffered  from and about the treatment given in a very  professional way, her senior doctor would tell her ”in human please”.Laymanise is just the term for it. It got through Oxford dictionary in 2012.

             I wonder why appatucker has not got through Tamil Dictionary.

lucky or not

                                             BEHIND THE WORDS

PAN OUT:

There were great cooks breaking their heads to make pancakes for so long. All the cooks joined together in a place. They had planned to make pancakes individually as each differed in their opinions. Then came the climax. In some pans, the pancakes were a success. And in some other pans, the cakes were actually disasters. So thus came the  phrase  “pan out” .And we say in some cases, it panned out well and if otherwise, we say it did not pan out well. Sorry just tried whether I could successfully cheat anybody and many say I failed. Ok. No more blabbering.

Well, here is the true story. It was in the year 1848,James Wilson Marshal did some Indiana Jones work and found gold treasure literally in some part of California. Many rushed there. Some lucky ones found gold in big pieces. Ohers  had to find gold down the mountains where rivers settle down the  gold particles. They had to take soil from such places, put it in a pan, add water to it, wash it and let out the water hoping for the settlement of gold in the pan. This process is called panning. If they found gold ,they said it panned out well. If otherwise, they said it did not pan out well.c u soon with some more to share.

                                                    

No dilemma

Names as words:

Gerrymander:

            

              Ready to hear some political history?Elbridge Gerry was the governor of Massachusetts.In March 1812 or at the time of election he redistricted that state and it favoured his party.They won.The redistricted place when mapped looked like a dragon,like a lizard-like creature,like a salamander.From his name and the  word "salamander"they coined the term gerrymander that means redistricting for some political favour.

Hobson's choice:

               Long back, somewhere near Cambridge university,there lived a man called Hobson.He led a successful life by renting horses to the people mostly students.Lots of customers came to him for hiring horses because they thought they had a wide variety of choices looking at the horses in his shop.wait!Don't guess the meaning of Hobson's choice now.Back to the story,they did not have as many choices as the no. of horses stood there.Hodson would choose a horse and make it stand near the entance.And the customers could only take that horse.So he could serve all men equally and prevent the horses from overusing.Now guess the answer for Hobson's choice and look below:

 Hobson's choice=this or none.

Guessed?

scored.