{"id":12365,"date":"2009-09-07T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/09\/07\/variety-slang.html"},"modified":"2009-09-07T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T18:18:07","slug":"variety-slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/09\/07\/variety-slang\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety slang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><cite>Variety<\/cite> has been using idiosyncratic and hyperbolic slang for about a hundred years now: ankle, biopic, boffo, chopsocky, helm, hoofer, nix, oater, percenter, scribbler, skein, sudser, terp, warble, whammo, yawner, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the official website now provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/index.asp?layout=slanguage\">glossary page<\/a> explaining a lot of their terms.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the terms listed are not specific to <cite>Variety<\/cite>, of course. But some words that have become common in everyday use&mdash;such as \"sitcom\"&mdash;were apparently coined by <cite>Variety<\/cite>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety has been using idiosyncratic and hyperbolic slang for about a hundred years now: ankle, biopic, boffo, chopsocky, helm, hoofer, nix, oater, percenter, scribbler, skein, sudser, terp, warble, whammo, yawner,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictionaries","category-slang"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}