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textlationship
noun
Slang.
a relationship or association between people who text each other frequently, but rarely if ever interact with each other in person: I thought he was interested in me, but we never even went out鈥攊t was just a textlationship.
More about textlationship
In English, the consonant cluster –xtl– in textlationship is awkward and rare.聽Textlationship is a neologism composed of text (message) and (re)lationship. The electronic medium is new, but a relationship, especially a romantic one, carried on at a distance through letters, has a long history. The word聽迟别虫迟濒补迟颈辞苍蝉丑颈辫听entered English in the early 21st century.
how is textlationship used?
Harry鈥檚 cottoning onto a textlationship might add meaning to one of his other recent stunts鈥攄ashing across the finish line of a Brazilian charity run … wearing a paper mask of his brother鈥檚 face. Let the soap opera begin!
Friendships can dwindle to textlationships, but it鈥檚 especially frustrating when a former or potential lover keeps you at arm鈥檚 length.
snoot
verb (used with object)
to behave disdainfully toward; condescend to: New arrivals in the town were snooted by older residents.
More about snoot
The English noun snoot is a Scottish variant of snout 鈥渢he nose, muzzle.鈥� Snout and snoot are akin to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snute, German Schnauze, and more remotely to Old English gesnot 鈥渘asal mucus鈥� (English snot), Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snotte, and German schneuzen 鈥渢o blow one鈥檚 nose.鈥� The verb snoot 鈥渢o behave disdainfully toward; condescend to,鈥� a derivative of the noun snoot, is an Americanism dating only to the late 1920s. The noun snoot entered English in the early 1860s.
how is snoot used?
鈥淚 happen to be one of those people who knows what they鈥檙e talking about,鈥� he snoots. The ghastly oil paintings in Rae Smith鈥檚 design suggest otherwise.
His retention of old tropes is no more inherently sentimental than the myth of progress that led some modernists to snoot him.
More about hyperbolic
The adjective聽hyerbolic has two distinct senses, both of them from the same Greek word 丑测辫别谤产辞濒岣� 鈥渟uperiority, excess (in geometry), extravagance (in rhetoric),鈥� literally 鈥渁 throwing beyond.鈥� In rhetoric 丑测辫别谤产辞濒岣� means 鈥渁n overstrained word or expression, a strong statement,鈥� as in “I could eat a horse!” The geometric sense of 丑测辫别谤产辞濒岣� (via New Latin hyperbola) is the curve formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle (that is, the plane makes a 丑测辫别谤产辞濒岣�) with the base than does the generator of the cone. Hyperbolic in the rhetorical sense entered English about 1646; the geometry sense entered English about 1676.
how is hyperbolic used?
… his hyperbolic rhetoric and his lack of attention to the concrete realities of reform will make it harder for even his sensible ideas to work.
鈥淚gnore the sound of people retching and sobbing and remember to keep your pace constant and very slow,鈥� is the slightly hyperbolic description from Henry Stedman鈥檚 guide to climbing the mountain.