Cursed With Ambition

Favorite Words for Intoxicated (In no particular order.)

1. Tight - "We all danced and got gloriously tight."  Think Gatsby.
2. Wasted - "Dude, we were so fucking wasted!"  Probably the first term used for "drunk" in high school.  Novice term.  Still widely used by the unsophisticated drinkers in college and beyond.
3. Twisted - Edgier that wasted.  Same context.
4. Shit-Faced - How did this term come about?  Funny visual.
5. Shit-Housed - This one I don't like at all because it doesn't make any sense.  What is a shit house?  Same thing happened between "shit load" and "butt load."  A shit load refers to a load of manure hauled in agricultural settings for fertilizer.    Usually a dump truck load or more (see Back to the Future scene).  Means a lot or very much.  Butt load doesn't make any sense because you just can't have a very big load in a butt.  At least not compared to a shit load.
6. Fucked Up - Universal.  Gotta love the venerable all purpose F word.
7. Lit - Like a candle or light bulb or firework.  Mediocre 90's band cribbed the name.
8. Inebriated - sophisticated, scientific.
9. Crunk - Li'l John brought this to the collective consciousness.  Not sure of origins other than simply ghetto slang or hip hop.  Sim. to "gat" (gun), "gank" (steal).
10. Drunk - Boring.  With so many options, who would simply say, "Man, I got really drunk"?
11. Gone-di - Like gone, except with a little Gandhi thrown in.
12. Blitzed - Like David Carr.
13. Smashed - Self flagellation with alcohol.  You'll pay for it in the morning.
14. Hammered - see "Smashed" above.
15. Pie-eyed - Don't know the origins.  Turn of the century slang.
16. Sauced - Stewing in it.  Bwwaaaaaaahhh.

Improving the World's Slang Vocabulary

Last night we did a mock negotiation in our Commercial Real Estate Transactions class.  We paired off in groups of twos; one buyer, one seller.  At the end of it, each group reported to the professor the details of their deal. 

I was in the last group to tell how we structured our deal.  After hearing what everyone else had done, I knew I "lost" the negotiation (based on incomplete and faulty information though, dammit!). 

Professor:  "Group eight.  Let's hear how you guys did."

Ojo Rojo:  "Well, I represented the buyer and I have to say, I pretty much got doinked on this deal."

Professor and class:  "AAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAHA!!"

Professor:  "What was the word you used?"

Ojo Rojo:  "Doinked."

Professor:  (giggling)  "How do you spell that?"

Ojo Rojo:  "D-O-I-N-K-E-D"

Professor:  "I'm going to use that word all the time.  In fact, I'm going to use that word on someone before I go to bed tonight.  Doinked.  Heh heh."

Happy I could add to your slang vocabulary, professor.

doinked- v.  past tense - to get screwed or fucked; especially in a deal.  To endure some misfortune, usually at the hands of others.

Good Things to Come out of Rita

Things are pretty much back to normal in Houston, although my law firm is based in Beaumont, which is still without electricity.  We are relocating seventeen people to our offices in Houston on Monday.  Should be a blast.

Anyway, some new vocabulary came out of Rita:

counterflow: n,v traffic or the movement of traffic that travels in the opposite direction that the road was meant to flow.  Ex:  The six southbound lanes of I-45 were opened to counterflow traffic heading north from Houston to Dallas.

premature evacuation*: n early movement of people from an area that is threatened by some danger despite the low odds that the danger will actually occur there.  Ex:  The mayor's order for Houston's citizens to flee hurricane Rita was premature evacuation because the storm was not likely to cause major damage to the city.

snowbird dumbshit: n that guy pulling the RV behind his too-small truck that cannot go more than 35mph hour up a hill who refuses to get off on the shoulder to let traffic pass safely.

eyewall:  n the area north and east of the eye of a hurricane that packs the strongest winds and tidal surge.

rooftop aversion syndrome: n Condition caused by fear of ending up on the roof of your home, surrounded by 12ft of water holding spray painted signs that say things like, "NEED ICE and WATER," or "PLEASE HELP!"  Sometimes leads to premature evacuation.

*lifted from allBilly

Killing Two Words With One Post

escheat n - the reversion of lands in English feudal law to the lord of the fee when there are no heirs capable of inheriting it under the original grant; the reversion of property to the crown in England or to the state in the U.S. when there are no legal heirs.  v - to cause to revert by escheat

adjunct n - something added or joined to another thing but not essentially a part of it; an associate or assistant of another.  adj - attached in a subordinate or temporary capacity to a staff

Used in a sentence:  As an adjunct to the ruling made by the probate court to the disgruntled heirs, the judge said that the decedent's intestacy was the reason why most of the acreage would escheat to the United States.

Note:  A decedent (one of my favorite law school words - so morbid!) is a recently deceased person and intestacy means "without a will."

Legalese

Haven't put up any new words lately.  My brother, who is in medical school, just started a blog and he's including medical terminology as a series of regular posts.  So, I'll follow suit and throw out a couple of legal words:

codicil: noun - a supplement to a will; an instrument of a testamentary nature, the purpose of which is to change or alter an already executed will by adding to and enlarging, subtracting from and restricting, or qualifying, modifying, or revoking the provisions of a prior existing will.

(taken from Law Dictionary by Steven H. Gifis, Barron's Educ. Series 1984)

Terry Schiavo should have had a codicil that described her preferences regarding life sustaining medical care.

Two Words Today

misocapnist - noun:  one who hates tobacco/smoking.

mundungus - noun: a foul-smelling tobacco.

Used in a sentence: After the misocapnist berated me for the odor of the mundungus cigarette I was smoking in a public area, I was paralyzed with indecision as to whether to extinguish my cigarette in his right eye or his left.

Word For Today

imbrication: noun - a decoration or pattern showing an overlapping of edges (as of tiles or scales).

Used in a sentence:  The hippie couple employed imbrication by covering their car with thin irridescent discs, which made it resemble a very large fish.

Sounds Dirty...But Isn't

usufruct: noun - the legal right of using and enjoying the fruits or profits of something belonging to another; the right to use or enjoy something.

By virtue of their marriage, Genevieve had a usufruct in Frank's Mercedes and Frank had a usufruct in Genevieve's underwear.

To find out how to exploit interesting usufructuary possibilities go here.

Word For Today

usury: noun - the act or practice of lending money at an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest.

Word For Today

abligurition:  noun - excessive spending on food and drink.

Used in a sentence:  Fatty Boombatty would be sitting on a fortune had he not depleted his finances through abligurition.  Instead, he now sits on his rather round rump.