Hoary
Function: adjective

1: gray or white with or as if with age
2: extremely old

Example: American innocence is a hoary theme in the classic American literature. The late R.W.B. Lewis devoted an influential work of literary criticism to the theme in The American Adam.

noun - willful and permanent crippling, mutilation, or disfigurement of any part of the body.

Most likely what the “Yes We Can(nibal)” perpetrator will be charged with.

Source: m-w.com, via Hot Air

Onomatopoeia are “sound words.” I did know that much. A better description is that they are words that imitate or suggest the source of the sound they are describing.

Common examples are oink, meow, roar, crash, bang, and boom!

They are not universal across languages, but interestingly they do conform to border linguistics… which makes sense… it’s a spelling of the way something sounds. An example is tick tock in English is tik tak in Dutch and tic-tac in French.

Other common examples are in comics. Spiderman’s webs make a “thwip!” sound, Wolverine’s claws are “snikt!” (or the lesser known “schlikt!” during the period when his adamantium was removed) and Nightcrawler’s “bamf!” teleportation.

Or in 70′s TV; wham!, pow!, “biff!”, crunch and “zounds” from the Batman TV show.

Or in 90′s hilarious cartoons; nuh!, newt! and mint! in the “Radioactive Man” episode of The Simpsons.

There is also apparently an internet meme, “I can punch you so hard words will appear in thin air.”

Or my favorite:

In one Captain America comic, the accidental use of the word “wank” as an onomatopoeia was found hilarious by many teenagers, due to its slang usage for masturbation. (The enemy was saying “Captain America, I command you to-” but was interrupted by Captain America striking a robot with his thrown shield and the “wank!” showed up right after the enemies’ speech bubble; Thus looking as though it had said: “Captain America, I command you to- Wank!”.)

In closing, I did know a lot of this already, but it expanded on some previous reading and I thought I’d make for some good blaging.

Source: Wiki

Functionally equivalent to “Jump The Shark,” but for Movies instead of TV.

Comes from Indiana Jones and the Last Spaceship of Doom.

Source: Urban Dictionary

noun – the act of destroying part of a country, in order to make it more eco-friendly and sustainable. Specifically as advocated by President Pantywaist’s “Science Czar.”

…not in M-W. But is in Wiki:

A derecho (from Spanish: “derecho” meaning “straight”) is a widespread and long-lived, violent convectively induced straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms in the form of a squall line usually taking the form of a bow echo. Derechos blow in the direction of movement of their associated storms, similar to a gust front, except that the wind is sustained and generally increases in strength behind the “gust” front. A warm weather phenomenon, derechos occur mostly in summer, especially June and July in the Northern Hemisphere. They can occur at any time of the year and occur as frequently at night as in the daylight hours.

Noun: Lighthearted unconcern.

Source: m-w, via Mark Steyn

Noun – harmony or agreement among components.

In music, the opposite would be dissonance, or discordant.

adj.- Something that is powerful despite its diminutive size.

noun- (1) A Miniature Chicken. (2) A member of the British Military that is shorter than average, but still scrappy.

noun— Specifically, a ancient Roman writing tablet with three waxed leaves hinged together.

Generally, a trilogy, or something is presented in 3 sections.

Source: m-w via Washington Post