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woes-coloured glasses

If someone sees things through woes-coloured glasses, they see things as being worse than they really are. Overly pessimistic view of things. Expecting the worst possible outcome. The opposite of rose-coloured glasses. Also spelled woes-colored glasses.

He's fearful and pessimistic of the future that he sees through woes-coloured glasses.

by ggaggamba June 25, 2015


glemish

a blemish created by used chewing gum spat, dropped or otherwise placed onto pavement that hardens and blackens by pedestrians trampling it underfoot. A glemish is found on ground surfaces such as sidewalks and streets made of concrete, asphalt, brick, tarmacadam (tarmac), or stone. Gum + blemish.

Out-of-town visitors to New York City were struck by the large number of glemishes on the city's {sidewalks}.

Each year the city's {sanitation department} spends thousands of dollars to remove glemishes.

by ggaggamba March 16, 2015

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webrambo

A person who posts accounts of his physically violent alternations on Internet forums and message boards. Often the altercation is due to "{white knighting". Web + Rambo

That site is filled with webrambos boasting about how they attacked some guy in a bar or nightclub for "offending" another person.

by ggaggamba March 16, 2015