Some additions for the Urban Dictionary
Earlier this year, State Department spokesperson Marie Harf became a verb. “Harfing,” according to the Urban Dictionary, means “To say or assert something so patently stupid and preposterous as to generate widespread mockery.” Harf, who last week seemed to confess that she is uncomfortable with “big words,” is the only administration official to have been thus honored so far. Here are some other possibilities for the Urban Dictionary. Readers will no doubt be able come up with more.
barryatrics: the Independent Payment Advisory Board
billious: irritated at the possibility that one’s sexual peccadillos will be exposed
bushwhacking: blaming all and sundry on your predecessor
carney: huckster in a jacket and tie
carterwauling: venting late-blooming anti-Semitism
carterwheeling: supporting America’s enemies, opposing America’s friends
cruzifiction: media treatment of leading conservative candidate
in Earnest: joshing
Gibbson: six parts prevarication, one part evasion; spin thoroughly; add pickled onion
goracious: a goreulous individual who lives in a home with a carbon footprint twenty times the American average
goreulous: babbling non-stop about “settled science”
grube: a hick from academia—someone, for instance, who doesn’t realize that videotapes of conferences can be accessed
grubering: telling the truth about your lies
hari-kerry: letting someone who has vowed to kill you have access to dangerous weapons
hillbilly: a person who maintains a marriage-in-name-only for political reasons
hilliarious: “The dog ate my emails.” “I am one lucky cattle-futures trader.”
kerryoki: mouthing platitudes in foreign capitals
mooronic: appealing to low-information, angry, America-phobic viewers
obambastic: rhetoric that sends a tingle up the legs of journalists
obamboozle: The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act
obaminate: to select for office otherwise unqualified individuals who are Democratic bundlers or leftist ideologues
obatomy: operation performed daily on the electorate by American journalists
peloozy: woman of dubious morals who engages in casual affairs with disreputable socialist ideas
psaki: alcoholic beverage made of fermented rice, brewed in Foggy Bottom; causes disorientation, dementia, and hallucinations
Rice Krispies: statements in which political expediency trumps truth
rahmbunctious: practicing Chicago-style politics outside of Cook County
valedictorian: éminence grise; the homunculus behind the curtain
valetudinarian: chaperone for an intellectually impaired or feckless individual
wrighteous: frothing