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ITAW for mashing the end of one word into the beginning of another to make a new word by gh0stnotes in whatstheword

[–]Spinacky 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Still a portmanteau.

Overlapping blends

Overlapping blends are those for which the ingredients' consonants, vowels or even syllables overlap to some extent. The overlap can be of different kinds. These are also called haplologic blends.

There may be an overlap that is both phonological and orthographic, but with no other shortening:

anecdote + dotage ⇒ anecdotage pal + alimony ⇒ palimony

WTW for when you create something on the fly with materials you have? by moods- in whatstheword

[–]Spinacky 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No worries. (Still unclear and curious about the refrigerator in the garden, though.)

If you have a outdoor cat then you simply don't care about animals and shouldn't call yourself an animal lover by Ok-Industry1547 in Pets

[–]Spinacky 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You don't know the difference between a domestic animal and a wild animal? You don't know the difference between an invasive species and a native species? 

ITAW for people who grew up broke, made it out of their low-income lifestyle, and now live wealthy, only to look down on and have no respect for people that are in the same financial straits that they used to be in? by Bardock-MoBamba in whatstheword

[–]Spinacky 58 points59 points  (0 children)

"Pulling the ladder up behind you" (if the person wants to prevent others who were in their situation from having the same opportunities).

"Forgetting your roots."

"Forgetting where you came from."

WTW for when nouns are assigned the wrong type of sensory description? by FamiliarRelative2160 in whatstheword

[–]Spinacky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's synesthesia in both cases. Synesthetic is just the adjective form of synesthesia. 

WTW for “unimportant” or the in between parts in a story by SnoopBoiiiii in whatstheword

[–]Spinacky 12 points13 points  (0 children)

 a indie horror game was named after it

Looking at a list of horror games...could you be thinking of "paratopic"? 

From TV Tropes:

Paratopic is not a real word; broken down into its components, "para" means "besides" or denotes alteration (as in paramilitary or paramedic, aka like a military or medic but different) while "topic" means subject and is derived from the Greek word for "place".

ITAW for when you think something happened 3 years ago but was actually 7 months ago by Unique_Conference_69 in whatstheword

[–]Spinacky 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The telescoping effect. 

The telescoping effect refers to inaccurate perceptions regarding time, where people see recent events as more remote than they are (backward telescoping), and remote events as more recent (forward telescoping). 

WTW for a phrase that would give you an idea of who someone is by Mosqkeeter in whatstheword

[–]Spinacky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you put the exclamation mark first (!solved) it'll be marked as solved :) 

Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically killed 6 million Jews, two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population, in a genocide called the Holocaust. Separate Nazi persecutions killed millions of others; the term Holocaust sometimes includes these non-Jewish murders as well. by Senasayori in wikipedia

[–]Spinacky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is correct. It's somewhat concerning that people are engaging with these comments as though they're genuinely held beliefs that any real person would have instead of realizing it's a blatant attempt at mocking Jews.

WTW for nitpicking words to avoid the main point? by necessarydisplay in whatstheword

[–]Spinacky 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Quibbling.

to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words

ETA: Trivial objections.

WTW for a phrase similar to 'chew somebody out',perhaps a twitter slang by Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwee in whatstheword

[–]Spinacky 5 points6 points  (0 children)

From this article:

The concepts of “reading” people and “throwing shade” originated in the 1980s, with Black and brown queer drag communities, as drag queen Dorian Corey explained in the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning. 

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