Word List / M :.
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26. mediacracy (mē'dē-ə-krə-sē)
- a. (n.) Government, usually indirectly, by the popular media; often a result of democracy going awry. A system in which politicians stop thinking and begin listening exclusively to the media regarding what the important issues are and what they should do about them.
27. meese (mēs)
- a. (n.pl.) A group of moose.
28. meetnik (mēt-nĭk)
- a. (n.) A person who enjoys meetings and other administrative events and tries to attend as many of them as possible.
Example: Being socially active is one thing, meeting for the sake of meeting is another. I try to stay away from meetniks for whom getting together is an end in itself. Meeting without meaning is worse than meaning without meeting.
29. megapixures (mĕg'ə-pĭks'ərs)
- a. (n.pl.) Pictures taken with a digital camera or prints made from digital files.
30. meh (mē')
- a. (n.) A multi-purpose response, primarily used to imply a degree of indifference. Tone of voice and circumstance often implies a meaning. Can be used when you don't want to answer an awkward or embarrassing question, or if you just plain have nothing else to say, and you want the other person to interpret the "meh" however he/she chooses. As in: Q: "What do you think of my new dress?" A: "Meh." or Q: "What do you want to do tonight?" A: "Meh."
31. melonfarmer (mĕl'ən-fär'mĕr)
- a. (n.) A much less profane version of its profane counterpart, m'er-f'er.
32. melty (məl-tē)
- a. (adj.) Of a melted consistancy; being partially melted.
Example: The s'more was deliciously melty.
33. memnants (mĕm'nənts)
- a. (n.) Any chipped or broken m&m's at the bottom of the bag.
34. memolandum (mĕm'ə-lăn'dəm)
- a. (n.) The miscellaneous note or letter you keep putting back in your in-box because you don't know what else to do with it. Also: (pl) memolandums
35. mentoree (mĕn'tôr-ē)
- a. (n.) One having a mentor; the beneficiary of a mentorship.
36. menuspect (mĕn'yü-spĕkt)
- a. (v.) To look at what other people have ordered in a restaurant while being taken to one's seat by the host or hostess.
37. menwheel (mĕn'hwēl)
- a. (n.) The occasional urge to use one's mouse wheel to make a menu slide up from the bottom or side of the screen. This behavior always results in the accidental scrolling of a document because menus do not work that way in today's computing world.
Example: After hours of work, Jim tried to check the time on his task menu, but instead found himself in menwheel as his 500 page thesis flew by him.
38. metabusy (mĕt'ə-bĭz'ē)
- a. (adj.) Engaged in activity directed at becoming busy, usually from an inability to complete a primary task given the current situation.
Example: "Since my hard drive crashed, I am metabusy trying to finish my reports."
39. methylphobia (mĕth'əl-fō'bē-ə)
- a. (n.) The fear one gets of whether or not they will having to pay for the few cents that they over-pumped at the self-service station.
40. metrosexual (mĕt'rō-sĕk'shü-əl)
- a. (adj.) A new form of sexual orientation and look. A metrosexual would most probably be straight with possible bisexual or homosexual tendencies who displays a curiosity through his or her hairstyle and choice of dress.
41. mibble (mĭb'əl)
- a. (n.) An unwanted piece of lint, crumb, or any small, visable object stuck on anything its not supposed to.
42. miffage (mĭf'ĭj)
- a. (n.) A measure of how much one can be miffed.
43. ming (mĭng)
- a. (n.) A disdain for the lack of importance and expression in another person's speech. In response to the unword "meh".
Example:
Person 1: How are you today?
Person 2: Meh.
Person 1: Ming.
44. minging (mĭng'ĭn)
- a. (v.tr.) British slang. Foul and utterly disgusting. Something physically repellant visually, nasally or otherwise. Usually used as refence to an object or act.
Examples:
Long-expired food unearthed from the fridge that is now nearing almost radioactive levels of instability/mutation: "This is completely minging cheese."
Picking road kill from the mudguards and wheel arches or rims of one's car, a toe curling, minging job, but necessary in order to avoid road-kibble, dried road kill deposits that one's dog or other pet will attempt to eat whenever said car is parked in the driveway.
45. minion (mĭn'yən)
- a. (n.) A person or thing that annoys or aggravates someone.
Examples:
Stop being a minion!
This machine is being such a minion.
46. mintigrate (mĭn'tĭ-grāt')
- a. (v.) To destroy in an odd way. To obliterate.
47. misanthropism (mĭs-ăn'thrə-pĭz'əm)
- a. (n.) The belief that humanity in general is rubbish; that humanity has a grim future; that people in general are evil and that one should stay away from them.
48. misconfuse (mĭs'kən-fyüz')
- a. (v.) To fail in confusing someone.
- b. (v.) To confuse the wrong person.
49. misembalm (mĭs'ĕm-bäm')
- a. (v.) To embalm the wrong person or any other life form.
- b. (v.) To botch the embalming of a person or other life form.
50. miserability (mĭz'ər-ə-bĭl'ĭ-tē)
- a. (n.) The measurement of how miserable one is at any given moment; the maximum level of one's ability to be miserable.
Example: Would you say your miserability was relatively high after your house fell into a sinkhole?
