Retiring Guy was employed by Merriam-Webster as editorial librarian/assistant editor for 2 1/2 years during the 1970s. One of his duties was reading and marking.
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Headline and subhead: New York Times, 7/28/2025
Catherine Pearson reports:
That particular role now has a name: “mankeeping.” The term, coined by Angelica Puzio Ferrara, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, has taken off online. [It describes the work women do to meet the social and emotional needs of the men in their lives, from supporting their partners through daily challenges and inner turmoil, to encouraging them to meet up with their friends.] (underlining and brackets added)
Other vocabulary posts:
2025
Hypergamy. (7/31)
Situationship. (7/30)
Lollygag. (5/22)
Bummer. (5/20)
TV dinner. (2/3)
March-December 2024
Deepfake. (9/1)
Life coach. (6/30)
Face-plant. (6/8)
Veggie. (4/26)
Dox/doxxing (4/11)
Edgelord. (3/23)
Dad joke. 3/4)
February 2024
Edutainment. (2/16)
Cut, as an adjective. (2/13). .
Flunky. (2/5)
Janky. (2/2)
Kiddo. (2/2)
January 2024
Bonkers. (1/31)
Heebie-jeebies. (1/31)
Nudification. (1/31)
Right-size. (1/14)
2022
Dumpster fire. (10/20/2022)
2018
Swinge. (12/18/2018)
2017
Michael Flynn vocabulary lesson. (2/14/2017)
2013
Yaw. (2/28/2013)
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