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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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A dictionary is more useful than Urban Dictionary (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've always felt that Urban Dictionary and a Dictionary are situationally useful. I would've never known what 'eepy' meant if I used a normal dictionary (honestly, I guessed what it meant just to test myself), which is always late to add new slang words. All the same Urban Dictionary would never be useful for finding the meaning of a well established word.

[โ€“] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

Then again Wikitionary has both, so just use that for everything (including scrabble if you wanna get chaotic)