We here at Al Bawaba have caught wind (sand storm-cum-haboob, to be exact) of some new lingo knocking about the laugh-a-minute news-feed that is the Internet. And when the new-age internet merges with social media and the Arab Spring, what do we get? We get user-generated politically incorrect but totally appropriate and sizzling vocabulary choices. Citizen media has met its counterpart, citizen dictionary. From wiki-dictionary to Urban Dictionary, those unpopular Arab leaders have finally made it! Out of state, and into today’s moc-tionary space.
Al Bawaba via Urban Dictionary brings you the legacy of the Arab Spring in our lexicon. These are dynamic times, where mock-lingo can gain official entry into the Oxford dictionary before you can say “degage” (familiar French for ‘get lost’), as linguistic evolution colludes with zeitgeist and internet memes.
Have you ever had an annoying hanger-on leech of a friend that just sticks and won’t be shaken off? Do you find yourself or your loved ones exhibiting delusional traits that have no place in 21st Century - or for that matter any Century - reality?
Try Mubarak:
1- Stubborn, authoritarian and sticky leader. Often this is the case due to being delusional and out of touch with common sense and people.
When a turd-like entity stays longer than is required or wanted, usually brings the mood down.
2- To be unwanted, but stay around.
(may be used as a verb or a noun)
Examples in contemporary usage:
Dude, I wanted to go to sleep except that douche stayed after all of my other party guests left,what a Mubarak.
Joe got drunk and then ‘Mubaraked’ the bar last night, even the ugly girls didn't want him around.
-verb example:
"ugh, that disgusting guy at the club kept hitting on girls and would not take a hint. he just kept mubaraking."
-noun example:
"this cold and cough has been weighing me down for almost 30 years. it’s such a mubarak.”
3- Mubarak(v.): To stick something, or to glue something.
4- Mubarak (adj.): slow to learn or understand.
I will punch u and Mubarak u to the wall ; u can Mubarak the pieces to hold them together ; Why do you have to be so mubarak
5- Mubarak (n.): a psychotic ex-boyfriend who fails to understand……… it’s freaking over!
Examples in usage:
dude, i broke up with you three months ago. stop calling me your girlfriend, you're being a mubarak.
6- Therefore, a Mubarak, is a crazy ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend that refuses to believe a relationship is over even after they've been told so by their partner.
Examples in usage:
Jane: UGH! Marke keeps calling me and leaving me voicemails telling me he loves me and to give him another chance.
Jihan: Ewww. What a Mubarak!
Try Gaddafi
Noun, verb, adjective, adverb.
1- To speak incoherently in a delusional fashion as a result of hallucinogenic drugs.
2- To be disconnected from reality.
Example in usage:
Palin is gaddafing once more. Will it ever end?
3- Used to describe erratic or despotic behavior of a controlling nature.
My girlfriend wants me to text her whenever I go anywhere without her, such a gaddafi.
4- Acting in the belief that one is correct in every instance and the world is unjustly arrayed against oneself by taking actions that deter or deny the opposition's capacity to prove one wrong.
The manner, or quality thereof.
Any such persons who embody this belief.
Derivatives: gaddafing, gaddafied, gaddafer, gaddafest, gaddafily.
Example in usage:
He gaddafied with the IRS over his lifetime of unpaid taxes.
The Libyan dictator gaddafily resisted US attempts to broker a ceasefire with the rebels.
5- (adj) means crazy, nuts, mentally disconnected and out of order.
Example in usage:
Girl, you drive me gaddafi!!
6- Another "ex-terrorist" the American government, and anti-terror warrior George W Bush, has formally forged diplomatic ties with.
Mr Blair is said by his officials to be ready to offer military training to Gaddafi's officers as a way of showing that Britain and the US do not want to disarm Libya totally and have no intention of attacking it. It's the oil they're after.
Nothing for Saleh?
Yemen's clingy Abdullah Ali Saleh hasn’t quite made it yet: but no doubt there’ll be a term coined for application to people that really don’t take the hint. Overstaying their welcome, and then some, perhaps.
And then taking a Time Out/ rain-check from (their) own revolutionary back yard on a medical leave of absence, i.e. Pulling a sickie from (one's) own year-long revolution...To save (already scorched) face.
Hard to pin down: Bashar Al Assad
As for the even harder still to shift, Bashar Al-Assad, he is still less-treated than others as he is surrounded by enigma and will-he won’t- he-leave speculation that leaves his case far from a foregone conclusion. Therefore, by this elusive token, Al Assad so far would be harder to attribute linguistic defnition to.
Still, Bashar Al-Assad has already crept in to some web wise-cracks:
'An Alien known for its mix of stupidity, irrational lying, and evilness. Example: Sorry, no appropriate example is found.'
- For more, watch this space!
