Key: "c.b." is short for "coined by"; "i.b." for "introduced by" (the person to make a meme of a word common outside of Swhack); where possible, there is a link to its first occurrence in the logs.
n. ‘autocorrect’ software, esp. when it causes corruption of text rather than correction.
c.b. sbp
interj. "Heh." A balance between usage of "blammo" and "heh" must be maintained at all times.
c.b. jcowan; later usage; heh–blammo balance reference.
n. [f. British mild insult berk.] Any non-Swhacker.
n. The name by which one is addressed by berks; one’s ‘proper’ name.
c.b. nsh
n. The physical world; the world inhabited by berks.
c.b. nsh
n. Usually refers to WebKit, but also other rendering engines usually based on context.
c.b. grr
pl. n. What software mostly consists of.
n.
cloudy as a butt: Completely overcast, or cloudy enough anyway that you can’t see the stars. (c.b. sbp)
n. GBP; the Great British Pound. The greatness of the pound is doubted by some, but nonetheless it continues to carry this title.
c.b. sbp
abbr. "CAnadian Dollar" The de facto official currency of Swhack. Commonly used in wagers and trades between Swhackers.
v. (/tʃɛx/, /tʃɛks/; Forms: pres. chex / pres. part. chex(ing) / past chex('d) / past part. chex('d)) [Presumably a shortening of "checks"] To check (sth.).
c.b. sbp; (in occasional use 2008–2009; reintroduced 2011 and in increasingly common usage 2012—)
v. (/tʃɒx/, /ˈtʃɒx.(ə)l/) [f. ME. chox, choxel, OF. chucelle] To chortle, chuckle, and otherwise find something amusing. Like "chuckle" but transinfinitely more awesome.
c.b. sbp
choxol: v. "chox out loud"
n., v. Motor racing; after the observation that all such races tend to involve is driving round in circles. An event of circledriving is, naturally, a circledrive. Also -running, -cycling, -flying, etc.
c.b. finsternis
adj. A cooler version of cool. Cooler than cool.
c.b. sbp
n. [Presumably by reference to Newspeak compounds (e.g. "crimethink") from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, referring to 2013’s W3C DRM effort and associated copyright-related news covered.] A potential violation of copyright; or an imitation of another person.
c.b. grr
n. A frighteningly original combination of ducks and slots. (See -slot, comb. form.)
c.b. sbp
n. Armageddon. Generally, something so terrible that anything known to cause, or immanentize, eschaton must be excised from Swhack with extreme haste.
i.b. rillian
contr. “Give me”
c.b. sbp
v. a: To use Google as an encyclopedia; b: to use Google to search Wikipedia.
c.b. kandinski
n. a: Google considered as an encyclopedia; b: Google as a search engine for Wikipedia.
c.b. nsh
pl. n., v. "Hacks", either of the security kind or the clever-trick kind.
v. (/hərft/) [f. sign on a door at St. Mary's College, Durham.] The action of stepping to one side to allow another to pass, e.g. in a corridor.
i.b. Arnia; later reference
herft (to the) left: v. to herft by stepping to the left. Considered shitrude in polite society.
herft (to the) right: v. to herft by stepping to the right. The correct thing to do when one needs to herft.
v. (Forms: immenentize, immentize, immantize, etc.; also with -ise.) To make (sth.) imminent; to cause (sth.) to happen immediately. Often as "immanentize the eschaton."
i.b. rillian; canonical spelling set by AaronSw
n. [f. 'iron metal', punning on both the meaning as a material and the figurative use of 'iron' (as 'strong')]
1. High perseverance, determination and bravery in the face of difficulties.
2. Iron metal.
i.b. finsternis_ from a North Korean news article
adv., n., & adj. "Maybe".
i.b. kandinski
n. (and adj.) The meta stone age. The stone age's stone age. The stone age about which, back in the stone age, they were saying "pah, that's the stone age".
c.b. sbp
pl. n. (/muː.ˈnɒs.ə.raɪ/) Creatures of mystical nature, a small group of which are purported to be owned by nsh, who is very protective of them and does not generally allow them to be shot.
c.b. nsh
n. The United States of America.
c.b. grr. (off-log, verified)
proper n. [f. the period when Web traffic ‘peaked’ in proportion to all other internet traffic.] The web circa 1999, usu. as seen in a positive, nostalgic light.
c.b. [bjoern]
pl. n. Pictures.
adv. "Please."
c.b. nslater; originally used only in the form "asl plox".
abbr. (Forms: various other abbreviations such as plz2b, plz2be, etc.) “Please to be.”
c.b. nslater (apocryphal)
n. A multi-line paste.
fucking (with) a quote deely: v. an interruption in the middle of someone else's paste. The rudest possible thing you can do on IRC: the equivalent of getting on a table and waving your bare arse in the air during a board meeting.
c.b. sbp
n. Updates to software, esp. those that change things arbitrarily. (Never used in the singular.)
c.b. grr
proper n. The month of December.
c.b. sbp
adj. Contemptible beyond belief; usually those who are shitrude are condemned to a paddlin'.
c.b. jsled
interj. (imperative) [f. amusing incident on Second Life] Abbreviation of “shut up”, though milder. Initially only as “shup foo”.
i.b. sbp
comb. form. A receptacle, or more generally an ability and willingness to receive sth., for instance if someone says they are about to paste a link, one might respond with "My linkslot is open."
comb. form. Usually refers to the United States of America.
n. Disappointment, usually.
adj. [Past-participle back-formation as if the ‘ware’ of ‘software’ was ‘wear’.]
1. The nonfunctionality or malfunction of (a feature of) piece of software.
2. The condition of someone affected by software that is softworn.
c.b. dpk (during the exile years)
interj. [Of obscure etymology.] “Buy!” and “Sell!” in one convenient word, for Bitcoin investors and stock-market day traders.
i.b. sbp (unquoted use)
v. [f. xkcd 214] To click through links on Wikipedia aimlessly; more generally, to research a topic in depth.
c.b. deltab
v. [f. TimBL, the internet handle of an infamous proponent of copy-protection systems.] To add copy protection (to); to brick.
timbled: adj.
c.b. grr
n. [Abbreviation.] "True facts." Often employed ironically.
c.b. nsh; (see also "trufact", earlier the same day)
v. [f. un- + timble] To remove copy protection (from).
untimbled: adj.
c.b. grr
See “best browser rendering engine, n.”
