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• Half-Mourning (Victorian n.): The final stage of the Decent two-year grieving period, in which the widow is allowed to hear hats again and can start to work bland colours (grey, lilac, lavender) into her clothing.


• Game recognizes game (black proverb): Takes one to know one; great minds think alike. Self-aggrandising compliment.


• healthspan (n.): the length of time in which you are healthy. Healthspan is the proper target of medicine, but has been sidelined in favour of raw longevity for a century.


• bare stick (光棍) (Chinese n.): Single man. (Some suggest that this is a dick joke, but this is likely to be denied by locals.) Name of the annual Valentine's Day / orgy of consumerism, on November 11th (chosen because 11/11 has a lot of single 1s in it).


• exploitable (n.): a meme template with blank space for you to speak your branes in.


• manhwa (만화)(Korean n.): manga.


• brohoof (internet n.): A high-five between two bronies, men who watch the show My Little Pony.


• Hartmann's (medical n.): Surgical removal of part of the colon.


• paypig (BDSM n.): the sub in a financial domination relationship.


• mustard (South England adj.): great; lavish. Only attested once on the internet."It's gonna be mustard!"


• summer slide (pedagogy n.): Putative effect in which children forget and/or become stupider over the summer holidays ("lose achievement gains"). Euphemistic page here. Life after uni is one long summer slide.


• threshold concept (pedagogy n.): A difficult but critical idea. Missing them can prevent ever progressing. Discussed by Scott Alexander here, more engagingly than the educationalists.


• clickwork (n.): internet piecework. e.g. copywriting, SEO text creation, tagging, product data management.