Word of the Day

cybertriumph, n. the moment when machine technology finally conquers man's control over it, and man gives the button to the machines.

verquin, n. a bird of ill omen, which is supposed to appear at the time when a woman begins her period. It brings bad luck to both the man and his future wife.

verebob, n. a kind of pickled cabbage that has been fermented in the presence of toxic chemicals to make it bitter.

SPLOCK, v.t. to grind against one's teeth with a pair of tongs, the end of which has been inserted on the edge of a wooden spoon.

beaver gravation, n. a religious ceremony performed in a particular locality of the world, for the purpose of raising good spirits or increasing devotion to a Cause. [shelfbrain.com?q=beaver%20gr…]

job, n. a thing to do or accomplish. "I'd like to work at the zoo, but not to, say, count giraffes." [shelfbrain.com?q=job]

raven, n. a bird that is black as coal. "Never look a gift raven in the beak!" [shelfbrain.com?q=raven]

dudgeon, n. an excessive indignation or bitterness, especially pertaining to the Germans. [shelfbrain.com?q=dudgeon]

GRUNT, n. an unsupervised discriminative semantic network that runs on cuda, cuDNN and TensorFlow. GRUNT can differentiate human-written English from Latin-sounding English and do this in real time. [shelfbrain.com/?q=GRUNT]

blmou, n. (pron. blmp-moh) The gnarly onomatopoetic mouthy guy, in movies or on the small screen. In spoken words it is a boy who shouts "grrrrrr!" in terror, but for musical purposes the sound is sounded by rolling the syllable long and high, like… [shelfbrain.com/?q=blmou]

advancing, v. to remove from rank. i.e., to displace. In Christian warfare with the heathen we must play the vanguard or leading soldier as far as the clash with numbers and situations permits. The antichrist is not limited by such circumstances or… [shelfbrain.com/?q=advancing]

biff, v. to improve by wicked carelessness: to protect by folly: to gain by deceit: to avoid: to spoil, ruin. [shelfbrain.com?q=biff]

knock knock joke, n. a joke in which a person knocks on a door and is answered by a voice that says "knock knock." Knock, knock! I am... I am... knock, knock, knock.. [shelfbrain.com?q=knock%20kno…]

iButton, n. the small wireless device for which MotoModle founder Nick Stattner and Erwin Lampe invented the technology. [shelfbrain.com?q=iButton]

coneflute, n. a rare concert instrument, with its own volume, with no limit to the numbers of notes that can be played at once. There have been many inventions of this sort, some of them ingenious and some of them criminally frivolous. [shelfbrain.com?q=coneflute]

zoned, adj. half-naked, half-nakedly. “I shan't undress even the clothes that only expose my wrists; the buckles, the buckles of my underwear are poor milk to me.” [shelfbrain.com?q=zoned]

Berlin, n. an imaginary German town on the Rhine which has no name. [shelfbrain.com?q=Berlin]

inexplicable conglomerate, n. any corporation, commonwealth or corporation controlled by a fractional owner who actually has no control over the company; as, for example, a "taurus multinational" (the taurus in question has only a 1% share in the co... [shelfbrain.com?q=inexplicabl…]

dauptonbeck, n. (Archaic) A small cat-like creature from the Ukraine that exists only as a joke. [shelfbrain.com?q=dauptonbeck]

chainsaw disaster, n. the all-too-familiar fate we had to live through when we tried to bring home Christmas presents for one of our wives, only to find that we still hadn't returned home after arriving at work on time. [shelfbrain.com/?q=chainsaw%2…]

London thump, n. the sound that apparently comes from the Ministry of Love when they break into people's flat to rescue them. It is so loud that it can also be heard outside the flat and, therefore, indirectly broadcasted into outer space. Also pr… [shelfbrain.com/?q=London%20t…]