NB - 'cissexism'

Apparently a 'cis' is someone who identifies with the same gender that they were born with. So that's a thing now.

- Tim Stanley, in The Telegraph

Since I'm sure you've always wondered...

[with thanks to Sandy Holmes]

Fun 'new' word

Heel, n. bad guy in (silly, lycra-clad) wrestling, or, less particularly, a contemptible person.

[For which, my thanks to JR.]

I learned a new word today,* Basie

roué, n. - named for the determinedly irresponsible friendship circle of the Duc d'Orleans' (c.1720), every member of which, he said, deserved to be broken on the wheel.

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* actually, a new etymology. Alas, I was already all-too familiar with the word  :s