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SNP’s word of the day: Workamper

By Sarah Nicole Prickett | February 29th, 2012 | 12:30 pm

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Word: Workamper

Meaning: Nomadic jobseekers who cross America in mobile homes, picking up low-wage, no-guarantee work where they can get it.

Usage: “Amalgamated advertises positions on websites workampers frequent. In this warehouse alone, there are hundreds of them.” — Mac McClelland in ”I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave”
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SNP’s word of the day: Awkscars

By Sarah Nicole Prickett | February 27th, 2012 | 1:30 pm

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Word: Awkscars

Meaning: The Oscars, now with 90 per cent more wtf-ness.

Usage: “More like the AWKSCARS. Everything is so f***ing awkward! I love it!” — a tweet by Aubrey Plaza, who awesomely goes by @evilhag.
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SNP’s word of the day: Nomophobia

By Sarah Nicole Prickett | February 24th, 2012 | 3:00 pm

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Word: Nomophobia

Meaning: The fear of losing one’s mobile phone.

Usage: “If you know the panicked and disconnected feeling of leaving your mobile phone at home, you might be one of the many suffering from nomophobia.” — Mashable.com
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SNP’s word of the day: Intello-chic

By Sarah Nicole Prickett | February 23rd, 2012 | 1:00 pm

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Word: Intello-chic

Meaning: High-brow studies rendered stylish by design or by association.

Usage: “What distinguishes these 10 [literary journals] is that they’re not only intello-chic statements for your side table. They’re also really good reads.” — The New York Times T Style Magazine
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SNP’s word of the day: Sprezzatura

By Sarah Nicole Prickett | February 22nd, 2012 | 3:30 pm

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Word: Sprezzatura

Meaning: An art that seems artless; a rehearsed spontaneity.

Usage: “I have a theory that elegant people have an aura of impenetrable private sadness, and that good taste and impeccable manners are life’s consolation. Perhaps they conjure sprezzatura, the Renaissance ideal of artful nonchalance, that makes it all conceivable.” — Lauren Cerand in her Rumpus.com essay, “On Elegance.” http://therumpus.net/2012/02/on-elegance/
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SNP’s word of the day: Babyccino

By Sarah Nicole Prickett | February 21st, 2012 | 1:00 pm

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Word: Babyccino

Meaning: A decaf mini cappuccino, made especially for the worst babies on earth.

Usage: “Too hip for apple juice? Try a babyccino… It’s what all the urban lumberjacks in man buns are putting in their offspring’s sippy cups. ” — The Frisky
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