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A nerd who is also a turkey. Nerd + turkey = nerkey.
"He's such a nerd, Adam is. Actually, he's more than a nerd, he's a nerkey!"
(n.) - The fact or state of something being at least visible in society, even if not everyone knows about it yet.
"You know, even if nobody has heard of my ideas for safer bike lanes yet, I hope that they can at least achieve a small degree of cameo visibility this century."
-- overheard at a watercooler at a national conference for
designers and inventors in San Francisco
(n.) - A news story so bizarre it makes you drop the marmalade when you are reading the newspaper or news on your iPad tablet at breakfast.
"Wow, the story about that guy embezzling all the money right in front of his co-workers' eyes is an amazing marmalade dropper. How come nobody noticed?"
-- overheard at a water cooler in a Manhattan office building, January 25, 2011
(adj.) -- Online comments on blogs and Internet forums that are so inane and stupid they resemble the kinds of comments written about some YouTube videos.
"The level of stupidity in some of the comments in some forums approaches youtubic proportions."
- overheard outside a Manhattan office cubicle
(n.) -- A combination of the words global and viral as a portmanteau word to mean a news story or a photograph that goes global and viral.
"Wow, that Lady Gaga video went gliral today, after news leaked out about who was really in it!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan on April 7, 2012
(n.) - a TV infomercial that is so sexy (either intentionally or otherwise) that you can practically have sex with yourself, or someone else,
while watching it.
"Oh my gosh, did you see that nymphomercial on TV last night, during halftime, with that awesome babe wearing practially nothing? It was awesome!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in an office building in Atlanta
on April 3, 2011
(n.) - A special-interest group or social activist group that espouses a specific cause to improve society or promote social or political concerns
"There is no special cause group for Dutch people in America, but there should be since many of our English words, such as Dutch treat and dutch oven and dutch wife are slurs on the Dutch."
- overheard at a watercooler outside a bookstore in Amsterdam on April 3, 2010