New Words For Noobs

These are some new words that i came across while surfing on the net and my tenure at P******M. I think that the never ending list of “NEW WORDS” continues to expand each year. There are a few in this list who’s origin can be traced back in time and a few new ones. I Hope you enjoy the definitions and make these words stick

Sorry Jhayu, I know this post might look Inspired from some blog to you.

1. BLAMESTORMING : Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2. SEAGULL MANAGER : A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

3. ASSMOSIS : The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

4. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles

5. PRAIRIE DOGGING : When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on.

6. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.

7. SITCOMs : Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

8. STRESS PUPPY : A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

9. SWIPEOUT : An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

10. XEROX SUBSIDY : Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.

11. IRRITAINMENT : Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The Abhi and Ash wedding (or not) was a prime example - Himesh Reshamiya, another…

12. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE : The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

13. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

14. 404 : Someone who’s clueless. >From the World Wide Web error Message “404 Not Found,” meaning that the requested site could not be located.

15. OHNOSECOND : That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an e-mail by mistake)

16. CROP DUSTING : Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a
Cube Farm.

17. FRIENDILIGENCE — The amount of time it takes to maintain friend requests on social networks such as MySpace and Facebook. “I just don’t have time for all of this friendiligence!”

18. PREHAB — A program to prevent young stars from behaving inappropriately. “Looks like Harry Potter is the only one who’s been to prehab.”

19. BROMANCE — Combination of brother and romance used to describe a strong heterosexual relationship between to males. “Sharukh Khan and Karan Johar have a great bromance.”

20. EARJACKING — Eavesdropping on a conversation. “That guy at that table over there is earjacking us!”

21. GINORMOUS — Combination of gigantic and enormous. “That sandwich I just ate was ginormous.”


*Courtesy the World Wide Web and my colleagues*

New words accepted.