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diphthonginess

English

Etymology

From diphthongy +‎ -ness.

Noun

diphthonginess (uncountable)

1. The state of being diphthongy (rather than being monophthongal).

felly

English

Etymology

Clipping of fellowship +‎ -y (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

felly (plural fellies)

1. (Christianity, informal) Fellowship.
   • 2010 December 9, Wells Tsai, “Post Finals Felly on Monday Dec 13th!”, in icflist@googlegroups.com‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Post Finals/Autumn's End Felly

   • 2011 April 8, Henry Wen, “Sharing at fellies”, in easterprayer2011@googlegroups.com‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Tomorrow we will print it and give a batch of posters to each felly so that ppl in the groups can put the posters in dorma^{[sic – meaning dorms]} and apartments.

   • 2014 October 18, Park Avenue Fellowship, Facebook‎^[3]:

     Hello felly friends (and all honorary felly fellows)!

   • 2023 August 25, Daniel Li, “SM Kick Off – September 9, 2023”, in Ottawa Chinese Alliance Church‎^[4]:

     OCAC SM will be kicking off the new school year with a 3-felly gathering filled with introductions to counsellors, student committees and events as well as new people coming into our fellowships.

Halekeyserian

English

Etymology

From Hale + Keyser +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Halekeyserian (not comparable)

1. Relating or according to the linguists Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser.
   • 2010, Víctor Acedo Matellán, Argument structure and the syntax-morphology interface. A case study in Latin and other languages‎^[5], University of Barcelona, page 83:

     Roots and DPs are merged into argumental positions, a circumstance derived from an abandonment of the l-/s-syntax distinction of the halekeyserian model.

   • 2021, Isabel Crespí, “Unexpected Passive Participles from Prepositional Verbs in Catalan”, in Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Akemi Matsuya, Eva-Maria Remberger, editors, Passives Cross-Linguistically: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 175:

     Following the Halekeyserian concept of P-cognation, we name the preposition of these verbs a “cognate P”, because it has the same features as the preposition incorporated into the verb.

impastor

English

Etymology

Blend of impostor +‎ pastor.

Noun

impastor (plural impastors)

1. (Christianity, informal, derogatory) Someone who pretends to be a pastor; a false teacher.
   • 2003 April 26, Celestial, “Belief in God”, in alt.philosophy‎^[6] (Usenet):

     Anyways, please by all means, this man is an Impastor, and it is wrong of him to present himself as such.

   • 2006 March 6, Les Hellawell, “Ignorant Atheist Idiots”, in alt.atheism‎^[7] (Usenet):

     At least you have the common sense not to buy fake religions as touted round by impastors

   • 2024 April 25, Protestia, X‎^[8]:

     If a trio of impastors approach you, always remember these steps

snippy snip

English

Etymology

Built on snip.

Noun

snippy snip (plural snippy snips)

1. (humorous) A cut or incision.
   • 1999, Chuck Snyder, Barb Snyder, Incompatibility: Still Grounds for a Great Marriage, Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, →ISBN, page 157:

     The problem with Barb's haircuts is her hair stylist cuts her hair with a microscope. He goes, "A snippy snip here, and a snippy snip there—that will be 30 dollars, please."

   1. (specifically) Circumcision.
      • 2006 June 23, Clarkey, “Circumcision?”, in Calgarypuck Forums‎^[9]:

        If I have a son he will be getting the snippy snip.

      • 2022 March 16, @spooky_toadman, Twitter‎^[10]:

        he really wants the snippy snip

   2. (specifically) Vasectomy.
      • 2003 January 31, Sharon B, “Martha's quest for male abandoners, was Re: Father abandons newborn; was Re: Abandonment or Death”, in soc.men‎^[11] (Usenet):

        So then, women get to force you guys to have a vasectomy. Fair is fair, right? Legally *force* you to go in for a little snippy snip?

      • 2005 December 14, John van Gurp, “Vasectomy”, in hfx.general‎^[12] (Usenet):

        Imagine having an unwanted baby while unemployed or stretched to the max with bills. That would suck big time.... far worse than having a small snippy snip.

      • 2010, Sharon S. Hart, Becoming Part of the Ribbon: My Personal Journey, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 33:

        Dr. Warren also suggested that if I'm not thinking of having anymore children, then Bill should go for the snippy snip.

      • 2018 May 2, David Schneiderman, Beast Mode‎^[13], Act One:

        Coitus interruptus moments. Got me thinking I need a snippy snip. Vasectomy.

      • 2021 July 7, @thedestinyj, Twitter‎^[14]:

        Husband getting the snippy snip after 3.

   3. (specifically) Neutering.

      2006 September 2, Mary, “WOT: About Chomskey, and the Truth”, in rec.arts.mystery‎^[15] (Usenet):

      Cheryl Perkins wrote:
      […]
      > I wouldn't say Mandy is ever likely to become pals with anyone who
      > can't open cat food containers, but she did eventually accept the
      > existence of the late Betsy, so there is still hope she'll accept Sam.
      > And Sam might become less likely to get on with the bopping and
      > wrestling as his testoterone levels continue to drop.
      >
      
      Oh? Is it nearly snippy-snip time?