pseudodictionary: the dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into a real dictionary

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if you know a word that should be in a dictionary but isn’t, submit it and we’ll add it to ours. if you know a real word and think it would fit in, submit it and see what happens. submit as many words as you like. just make sure they meet our arbitrary and ever-changing guidelines.

guidelines — and tips on how to get your words accepted

make us smile. if you do, we relax the guidelines. make us laugh &mdash you’re in.

submit only words that are in the public domain.
don’t include a url in your description or example.
names of your friends or enemies will not be accepted.
be creative. you’ll know if a word is worth adding or not.
don’t submit words that are “chat room” spellings of existing words.
an existing word? cool, if it’s really great. or if you have a special twist.
give a clear description of your word. show how to use it in an example.

elaborating on the business about insults and keeping it clean:

we don’t take kindly to efforts to make us party to conflicts or to juvenile or nasty behavior. or to efforts to make us look foolish. nor do we care for attempts to run something by us — such as a submitter who tries to use the pd to promote her business. (possible risqué meaning noted.) links to business sites will be deleted. you want to advertise? money talks. make us an offer we can’t refuse. if we think any of those are in play, we usually reject the entry. either that or we accept it and respond in some juvenile fashion ourselves. it depends on the mood we’re in. . . . and the mood i'm in right now is to create a new page and list the names and e-mail addresses of the most egregious violators of the guidelines, encouraging anyone who views the page to "say hello."

if it’s saturday night and seems like a good idea at the time, we may give a submitter a virtual smack upside her head. (a la jethro on the tv series ncis. do you seriously think bosses go around doing that to their subordinates?) we reserve the right to turn insults back on submitters by using their e-mail addresses or names in descriptions and examples, by adding snide comments, or in any other way we choose. we do not suffer fools gladly — and we don’t need to buy ink by the barrel to have an edge.

if your name happens to be chris, tough. we use the name chris as the personificaton of all things rotten. we have our reasons. chris has no say in the matter.

show us you can muster the energy to reach the shift key. do as we say, not as we do: don’t be shiftless. text in all lowercase is hard for us to read; submittals in all uppercase letters will be rejected. the gist of this: don’t make us work too hard to convert your entry to standard english usage — capitalization, grammar, punctuation, rhetoric, spelling, style, and syntax.

include your e-mail address with your entry so we can tell you when your word is accepted. except for a request for permission to use a created word, we will not share your e-mail address with any third party unless required to by law. otherwise, contact information will be disclosed only to those who maintain the site. (be sure to note the "snide comments" exception above.) we do not display submitters’ e-mail addresses. this prevents spammers from “scraping” them for mailing lists. we will make changes if we need to to keep your contact details secure.

adding a word to the pseudodictionary is easy.

all you have to do is fill out the form below and click on »submit a word.

submittal form(* = required)

name*

e-mail address

your url

the word*

describe the word*

use the word in an example*

your entry will be reviewed by an editor. if it meets our guidelines, we’ll add it and notify you. entries that break the rules will be deleted; they will not go live.

since this is primarily a slang site, we’re pretty lax in terms of grammar and spelling; however, if we can’t tell what a word means or how to use it, we won’t add it. (note: we convert submittals to fowler language before they are added.)

all words, descriptions, and examples are to meet the following criteria. they can’t be

racist, sexist, or hateful.
overly graphic or descriptive of sex acts.
drug slang, or related to drugs in any way.
genital slang or related to bodily (toilet) functions.

a term will not necessarily be "excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or [other] kind of slur," but it very well might be.

our rules are in place not because we want to make the site enjoyable for everyone, but because we’re hardass grammar nazis. (pay attention: look for sarcasm.) if you have any concerns about how we run the site, tell hd. he might be in the mood to listen. might be. don’t count on it.