word of the day

Word of the Day: Mise en Abyme

Picture in a picture, infinite regression.

Dec 20, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

Word of the Day: Rage Bait

I'm down with the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year.

Dec 2, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

Word of the Day: Broetry

A barrage of single sentence paragraphs culminating in some chest-thumping way.

Nov 30, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

Word of the Day: Coverture

When a woman's rights were subsumed by those of her husband.

Nov 26, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

Word of the Day: Conflict Entrepreneur

Where there is online strife, there's a buck to be made.

Nov 25, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

Word of the Day: Exposome

You are what you are exposed to.

Aug 4, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

Word of the Day: Alterity

Otherness is next to differentness

Jul 18, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

Word of the Day: Apericena

More than a snack, less than a full dinner.

Jul 13, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

Word of the Day: Dark Leisure

What do people do with the fragments of time they get back from vibing?

May 28, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

Word of the Day: Caesura

Sometimes a verbal stumble means more than being tongue-tied.

May 17, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

Word of the Day: Froideur

Like Anna Wintour, for example.

May 4, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

Word of the Day: Passerelle

In the theatrical sense.

Mar 16, 2025 • Stowe Boyd

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