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Welsh entry for "cont y môr" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:

Noun
1. (vulgar) jellyfish

Synonyms: (standard) slefren fôr; pysgodyn jeli, (childish) pysgodyn wibli wobli
Etymology: Literally, “cunt of the sea”.

French entry for "ouate de phoque" on WIktionary. The page reads as following:

Interjection
1. (humorous) what the fuck

Etymology: Homophonic translation of English what the fuck. Literally, “seal's cotton wool”.

Japanese entry for ようつべ on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:

Proper noun
1. (Internet slang) YouTube

Etymology: From English YouTube, by directly typing youtube as rōmaji and converting to kana via a Japanese IME.

French entry for "-ing" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:

Suffix (noun-forming suffix)
1. (productive) Used to form verbal nouns from verbs

Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from English -ing.

Usage notes: The suffix is used productively to create pseudo-anglicisms with terms borrowed from English, for example, footing (“jogging”) and relooking (“makeover”).

English entry for "poor little meow meow" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:

Noun
1. (fandom slang) A fictional character who is both endearingly pathetic and extremely flawed or villainous.

Etymology: Originated from a viral 2020 tweet by a BTS fan apologetically addressing group member Suga (known by the fan nickname "Lil Meow Meow") as "my poor meow meow...my baby my little baby who hurt[sic] so much […] ." The tweet was made in response to the controversy over Suga's sampling of a speech by cult leader Jim Jones (1931–1978) on his solo mixtape D-2.

See also
- babygirl (“male morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans”)
- blorbo (“any character of whom one is particularly fond”)
- cinnamon roll (“character perceived as good and kind”)
- Draco in Leather Pants (“any morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans”)
- woobie (“morally ambiguous character subjected to pain for pathos”)

English entry for "autism creature" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:

Noun
1. (Internet slang) A white, four-legged creature with a large head, neutral expression and large black eyes, used to represent autistic people. [from 2020s]

Etymology: Popularized in 2022 on social media, particularly on Tumblr.

[The sidebar has an image of the creature with the caption "The original autism creature, drawn by Twitter user @acmeiku in 2021"]

English entry for "sesbian lex" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:

Noun
1. (Internet slang) Spoonerism of lesbian sex.

Usage notes: Used either humorously or as filter-avoidance speech.
(The entry has a pronunciation section with IPA transcriptions and two audios.)

Finnish entry for "yleisavain" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:

Noun
1. master key
2. (slang) crowbar

Finnish entry for "tuimuus" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:

Noun
1. severity, vigorousness
2. sternness, somberness
3. (Western Finnish, of food) spiciness, sharpness, saltiness
4. (Eastern Finnish, of food) blandness, saltlessness

Finnish entry for "liskojen yö" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:

Noun
1. (colloquial) a night of insomnia and anxiety caused by excessive alcohol consumption or by ceasing the use of alcohol

Etymology: Literally, "lizards' night".

English entry for "sore boob means more boob" on Wiktionary. The page content reads as following:

Proverb
1. (transgender slang) Sore breasts should be appreciated as a sign of breast growth.

Quotations: [only the first one shown]
- 2019 January 5, u/SkaterdykeJuno, r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns‎ (Reddit post): embrace the pain! ¶ sore tit means more tit!

Alternative forms:
- sore boob is more boob, sore boob equals more boob, sore boob = more boob
- sore boobs means more boobs, sore boobs = more boobs
- sore tit means more tit

English entry for "updog" on WIktionary under the "Etymology 2" section. The page content reads as following:

Noun
1. (humorous) A notional, ostensible substance; used to trick a victim into asking "What's updog?".

English entry for "updog" on Wiktinoary. The page content reads as following:

Noun
1. (yoga) A yoga pose in which the practitioner lies prone with the torso erect, supported by the arms, and the head tilted back.

The sidebar has an image of a man practising the pose.

Swedish entry for "kissemiss" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:

Noun
1. (colloquial, endearing) kitty-cat, pussy-cat

Etymology: From kisse (“cat”) +‎ misse (“cat”), both endearing terms.

English entry for "puppygirlhood" on Wiktionary, with two quotations. The page reads as following:

Noun
1. (neologism, nonce word) The state or condition of being a puppygirl.

Quote 1: 2024 March 15, @FatesWright, X (post):
Catgirls were "early transfem phase" at a macro level, purely a want of aesthetic and social appeal of anime catgirls. ¶ Puppygirlhood is the acceptance of ones own place in society as an Average Jane and being able to work on what you actually want to exhibit as a person beyond

Quote 2: 2025, Jay Szpilka, “What Puppygirls Know? The (in)Human Pedagogy of a Trans Feminine Style”, in Australian Feminist Studies:
The drawing illustrates this transition by showing a passage from youthful partying to adult office work – but one within which the trans woman in question is still a dog. The potentially queerphobic mandate of leaving the childhood follies of erotic extravagance for the sake of gainful employment is thus juxtaposed with the affirmation of a possibility to remain a dog woman even as one ages out of puppygirlhood.

Finnish entry for "ärräpää" on WIktionary. The page content reads as following:

Noun (informal, often humorous)
1. swearword, especially one with an r sound, such as perkele

Etymology: From ärrä (“ar, the letter R”) +‎ pää (literally “head”).

Portuguese entry for "cor de burro quando foge" on Wiktionary. The page content reads as following:

Noun
1. (humorous) an indistinct or nameless color

Etymology: Literally, “color of a donkey when it flees”. Compare Catalan color de gos com fuig, Italian color cane che fugge and Spanish color de perro que huye, all literally meaning “color of a dog when it flees”.

English entry "with blackjack and hookers" on Wiktionary. The page content reads as follows:

Prepositional phrase
1. (US, slang, humorous, somewhat vulgar) Improved, enhanced; said of a new competing product or service compared to an existing one.

Etymology: From the episode "The Series Has Landed" (1999) of the American animated sitcom Futurama, which includes a running gag involving the robot character Bender stating that he will build his own versions of tourist attractions after being excluded from them, but "with blackjack and hookers" added.

English entry for "wincest" on Wiktionary. The page content reads as follows:

Noun
1. (fandom slang, originally anime) Incest, usually of two siblings.

Etymology: Blend of win +‎ incest, influenced by the slash ship name Wincest.
Usage notes: The term typically has positive connotations.

English entry for "tortures phrases" on Wiktionary. It has a box with examples, including:

- bosom peril (“breast cancer”)
- counterfeit consciousness (“artificial intelligence”)
- lactose bigotry (“lactose intolerance”)

English entry for "kismesis" on Wiktionary. The definition is given as following:
1. (Homestuck fandom slang) A person with whom one shares an intense but adversarial romantic connection based on a feeling of hatred; a nemesis; a rival.

Sumerian entry for 𒄠𒋛 (am-si, "elephant") on Wiktionary. It includes a quotation, dated to c. 2nd millennium BCE, translated as the following:

> The elephant spoke to himself: "Among all the creatures of Šakkan, the one that can defecate like me has yet to be created!" The wren answered him: "But I, in my own small way, can defecate just as much as you!"

Chinese entry for "I go to school by bus" on Wiktionary. The definition is given as:

(Hong Kong Cantonese, humorous, originally Internet slang)
1. a dummy response to questions when an English answer is expected
2. a dummy phrase used to signify the speaker's lack of proficiency of English
3. a dummy text to be used as a placeholder for English text, such as in typesetting

Wiktionary entry for "plompy" with two etymologies: the first one having the sense of "chubby, fat, plump"; the second one having the sense of "bat-eared fox".

Etymology at the Wiktionary entry for "łį́į́ʼ", Navajo for "pet", reading:

> Of the extant senses, the sense of “pet” is oldest; the original meaning, retained in Athabaskan cognates, was “dog”. Upon the reintroduction of the horse to North America, the Navajo language transferred the usage of łį́į́ʼ to the horse (which became the new favored “pet” in Navajo culture), with the dog being referred to by a derived term, łééchąąʼí (literally “shit pet”), i.e. pet which eats excrement.

Image at the Wiktionary entry for "sus" with the caption "sus" in Kashubian, showing a ground squirrel eating in a possibly suspicious manner.

Image at Wiktionary entry for "eepy" with the caption "An eepy cat on a bench", showing a white cat laying down and sleeping.

Joke entry for "Wiktionary" where all other words have been replaced with "Wiktionary"