A great idea. A place to find not just what something is but other ways to express yourself.
Me ~ "I was looking for some new way to say 'later' but Urban Dictionary wasn't any help."
Someone Else ~ "Yep, I sure wish there was an Urban Thesaurus!"
Me ~ (Bursting into tears) "B-B-b-but there's noooooooottt."
(sniff sniff)
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The only thesaurus where Cousin and Wife are synonyms.
The Alabama thesaurus only costs $9.99 in most parts of the United States. In the south it costs your sister.
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Corporate Media resource to describe donald trump's treasonous actions with bland terms
The New York Times reported on donald trump's speech at Mt. Rushmore as "ominous," which is a word journalists found in their Normalizing Thesaurus. "ugh, those fucking guys" Carl exclaimed after reading his morning paper
Someone who repeatedly uses large, complicated words when only the basic word is required and/or jumbles up words together that don't have the same meaning as intended. (Attempting to sound smarter than they actually are.)
Prof: Now who can explain the theory?
Student: I obtain the ability!
Prof: Okay Michelle, go ahead.
Student: I have high doubts in the cognitive processes of this theorist as he continually demostrates excavating premonitions about the ongoing insanities of the homo sapien population. His theory contradicts all predescendant foreknowledge.
Prof: Well now class, we seem to have a thesaurus bitch in our midst.
One who attempts to sound intelligent by using a computer thesaurus for more intelligent sounding words.
Ends up sounding ridiculous either by using words completely out of context or by misspelling them.
Rudy stopped being a thesaurus abuser when his computer died.
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a dinosaur who doesnt attack people, only bombards you with words that all have the same meaning until you kill yourself.
watch out. very dangerous
That thesaurus rex almost synonymed me to death.
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The use of "big" words in lieu of their "common" counterparts (often out of context) in a futile attempt to sound more intelligent. This technique is often used by liberal arts students when attempting to sound competent when talking about a subject that they have no clue about.
In a class room discussion about UrbanDictionary.com
Jill: Urban Dictionary's abominable nature not only proliferates the use of exiguous, diminutive, colloquial English, it actually bolsters and espouses it!
Jack: ya, and it gives us words like thesaurus rape to describe what you are doing!!
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