A place to collect additions to lexicon(s), as they cross my path and provoke "hmmm... what's that all about?" and maybe eventually a gloss for each ... historical, demographic, sociocultural, geographical...
But for now, here's a List of my encounterments in the last few weeks, words and phrases that have salience, and so provide savor and flavor in the moment. Most are not new to me, though the thoughts their appearance inspires may be:
unseemly
wabi-sabi
Bros (as in 'Techbros')
NPC ('non-playing character')
-ware (nod to Rudy Rucker)
Agency
Tar Baby
Algorithm, and 'algorithm distortion'
Cyber and Cyber-
reprehensible
recrudescence ("...the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve")
affordance
macramé
The Bully Pulpit
sin vergüenza ('without shame', but deeper)
pinkwashing (and -washing more generally); 'cause marketing'
-bot
lacuna
mashup
parasociality vortex ...see also Parasocial Relationships: Imaginary Friends of the Social Network Age Arvid Kahl 26v22
hunkering
hold my beer
"...kinks in that slinky"
cishet men
manchild / manbaby
flooding the zone
fantods
YCMTSU
chaos monkey
manosphere alphas
polycrisis
tendentious
enabling
amIright?
barn-burner
monetized/monetised
woke
culture wars
contestatory AI
explication
parse
problematize
avatar
vielschreiberei 'writing to excess'
Mo[u]ldy Fig and see also On and off the bus oookblog 7ix17
metastatic nationalism
louche
jive turkey
jive
jive-ass
dis track
You know what I'm sayin'?
signifying monkey
signification
bandied about
D'oh
topolect
squabble up
externalities, externalize
hilaribad
swasticar [Tesla]
rhetoric
knock yourself out
parlance
symbionts
sock puppet
weaponize
genre
tmesis [abso-fucking-lutely]
disingenuous
bugaboo
denote
hella
derp
AFAICT ...as far as I can tell...
KFTF ...keeping found things found...
folksonomy
kickstarter
FWIW
verisimilitude
serendipity [of course...]
your mom [insult and disdain]
slack, slacker
-core (add amialivecore)
doomscrolling
so cringe
launder
muggles
clickbait
enshittification
zoombombing
inerrant
couth, couthless, uncouth
portentous
exochoronym
feck and feckless
hipcrime
neoterise
vibe coding
agentic AI
PJ 'private jet'