• C-mo, C Mo

From Cantonese 師母 / 师母 (si¹ mou⁵). Compare Cantonese Ching.

C-Mo (plural C-Mos)

1. (Chinese Christianity) The wife of an ordained pastor.
   • 2012, 張陳培南, “Blessed Are Those ... Following God's Call”, in 我只想做師母, Hong Kong: 611靈糧堂有限公司, →ISBN, page 65:

     And, not only that, C-Mo (Mrs. Cheung) had so lovingly prepared everything for us down to the last detail!

From diphthongy +‎ -ness.

diphthonginess (uncountable)

1. The state of being diphthongy (rather than being monophthongal).
   • 2019 February 15, u/badr, “Is there precedent on how Richard became 'Dick', Guantanamo bay is 'Gitmo' or William is 'Bill', Elizabeth is 'Liz/Lizzie'? Or is it more of convention for name shortening?”, in Reddit‎, archived from the original on 2025-03-14:

     I think Tyler doesn't get shortened to Tyl because the long vowel with these particular consonants brings out the diphthonginess of the long I.

Clipping of fellowship +‎ -y (“diminutive suffix”).

felly (plural fellies)

1. (Christianity, informal) Fellowship.
   • 2010 December 9, Wells Tsai, “Post Finals Felly on Monday Dec 13th!”, in [email protected]‎ (Usenet):

     Post Finals/Autumn's End Felly

   • 2011 April 8, Henry Wen, “Sharing at fellies”, in [email protected]‎ (Usenet):

     Tomorrow we will print it and give a batch of posters to each felly so that ppl in the groups can put the posters in dorma and apartments.

   • 2014 October 18, Park Avenue Fellowship, Facebook‎, archived from the original on 2024-07-01:

     Hello felly friends (and all honorary felly fellows)!

   • 2023 August 25, Daniel Li, “SM Kick Off – September 9, 2023”, in Ottawa Chinese Alliance Church‎, archived from the original on 2024-07-01:

     OCAC SM will be kicking off the new school year with a 3-felly gathering filled with introductions to counsellors, student committees and events as well as new people coming into our fellowships.

From Hale + Keyser +‎ -ian.

Halekeyserian (not comparable)

1. Relating or according to the linguists Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser.
   • 2010, Víctor Acedo Matellán, Argument structure and the syntax-morphology interface. A case study in Latin and other languages‎, University of Barcelona, page 83:

     Roots and DPs are merged into argumental positions, a circumstance derived from an abandonment of the l-/s-syntax distinction of the halekeyserian model.

   • 2021, Isabel Crespí, “Unexpected Passive Participles from Prepositional Verbs in Catalan”, in Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Akemi Matsuya, Eva-Maria Remberger, editors, Passives Cross-Linguistically: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 175:

     Following the Halekeyserian concept of P-cognation, we name the preposition of these verbs a “cognate P”, because it has the same features as the preposition incorporated into the verb.

• holly lily

After the plants associated with the two holidays.

holly-lily (not comparable)

1. (Christianity) Attending church during Christmas and Easter, and almost never for any other time of the year.
   • 2003 April 21, Adam Silverman, “Unfamiliar faces fill churches on Easter”, in The Burlington Free Press‎, →ISSN, page 3B:

     People who go to church only on Christmas and Easter sometimes are called "C and E" or "holly-lily" Christians, or even "Easter bunnies."

   • 2013 December 17, Rachel G. Hackenberg, “In Defense of the Holly-Lily Crowd”, in The Huffington Post‎, archived from the original on 2025-04-20:

     In church circles, when pastors and staff and church members plan for the Holly-Lily influx (printing extra bulletins, for example, or preparing the overflow room off of the sanctuary), the feeling is usually less than affectionate. To congregants who support the church Sunday after Sunday, Holly-Lily folks can be easily stereotyped as slackers who want a good church without the hassle of participation. To pastors who are exhausted from extra holiday sermons and services, not to mention the stress of preaching for folks who hear only two sermons a year, it can be tempting to see the Holly-Lily crowd's financial gifts as the only blessing of their attendance.

   • 2015 April 6, u/planecrazy11, Reddit‎, archived from the original on 2025-04-20:

     I've always heard of them as the holly-lily crowd.

   • 2021 December 24, “As a Christian who regularly goes to church: cristers (people who only seemingly go to Christmas and Easter services) are not a problem; you are welcome, you are wanted, you are loved.”, in Reddit‎, archived from the original on 2025-04-20:

     Ooh I’ve never heard Christers before! We call them Holly-Lily Christians where I’m from

   • 2023 September 25, @DavidBranscum, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2025-04-20:

     They don't like the p word. As a Christian, we refer to them as the holly lily crowd. They only show up on Christmas and Easter.

holly-lily

1. (Christianity) A person who attends church during Christmas and Easter, and almost never for any other time of the year.

   Synonyms: Chreaster, Christmas and Easter Christian

   • 2023 September 15, @LAsweetlight, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2025-04-20:

     I remember the relief I felt when I finally told my Catholic mom that I do not believe in any kind of deity & I couldn't be a "holly-lily" for her anymore.

Blend of Orthodox +‎ bro.

Orthobro (plural Orthobros)

1. (Internet slang) A young man who has recently converted to Orthodox Christianity, often characterized by alt-right ideology.
   • 2025, Lydia Khalil, “‘Orthodoxy or Death’: The embrace of Orthodox Christianity by the modern far right”, in Michele Grossman, H. A. Hellyer, editors, Rethinking Religion and Radicalization: Terrorism and Violence Twenty Years After 9/11, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 235:

     One subset of the Orthosphere is the ‘Orthobros’, young to middle-aged men of the alt-right who have recently converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, either from other Western European Christian denominations or who have had no prior religious affiliation. Orthobros not only take aim at social and political liberalism but also direct much of their commentary towards ‘dunking on’ Catholicism and Protestantism, re-enacting a contemporary manifestation of the historical legacy of competition and conquest between Rome and Constantinople, culminating in Christianity’s Great Schism of 1054.

Built on snip.

snippy snip (plural snippy snips)

1. (humorous) A cut or incision.
   • 1999, Chuck Snyder, Barb Snyder, Incompatibility: Still Grounds for a Great Marriage, Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, →ISBN, page 157:

     The problem with Barb's haircuts is her hair stylist cuts her hair with a microscope. He goes, "A snippy snip here, and a snippy snip there—that will be 30 dollars, please."

   1. (specifically) Circumcision.
      • 2006 June 23, Clarkey, “Circumcision?”, in Calgarypuck Forums‎:

        If I have a son he will be getting the snippy snip.

      • 2022 March 16, @spooky_toadman, Twitter‎:

        he really wants the snippy snip

   2. (specifically) Vasectomy.
      • 2003 January 31, Sharon B, “Martha's quest for male abandoners, was Re: Father abandons newborn; was Re: Abandonment or Death”, in soc.men‎ (Usenet):

        So then, women get to force you guys to have a vasectomy. Fair is fair, right? Legally *force* you to go in for a little snippy snip?

      • 2005 December 14, John van Gurp, “Vasectomy”, in hfx.general‎ (Usenet):

        Imagine having an unwanted baby while unemployed or stretched to the max with bills. That would suck big time.... far worse than having a small snippy snip.

      • 2010, Sharon S. Hart, Becoming Part of the Ribbon: My Personal Journey, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 33:

        Dr. Warren also suggested that if I'm not thinking of having anymore children, then Bill should go for the snippy snip.

      • 2018 May 2, David Schneiderman, Beast Mode‎, Act One:

        Coitus interruptus moments. Got me thinking I need a snippy snip. Vasectomy.

      • 2021 July 7, @thedestinyj, Twitter‎:

        Husband getting the snippy snip after 3.

   3. (specifically) Neutering.

      2006 September 2, Mary, “WOT: About Chomskey, and the Truth”, in rec.arts.mystery‎ (Usenet):

      Cheryl Perkins wrote:
      
      > I wouldn't say Mandy is ever likely to become pals with anyone who
      > can't open cat food containers, but she did eventually accept the
      > existence of the late Betsy, so there is still hope she'll accept Sam.
      > And Sam might become less likely to get on with the bopping and
      > wrestling as his testoterone levels continue to drop.
      >
      
      Oh? Is it nearly snippy-snip time?

U of T time

1. (university slang) A system in which an event (usually a class) begins ten minutes after the hour.
   • 2014, M.P. Fedunkiw, A Degree of Futility, Victoria, BC: Friesen Press, →ISBN, page 7:

     When the chairperson glanced at his watch, MacPhee joked, "Am I late? I thought it was nine o'clock on U of T time." Classes started at ten past the hour so MacPhee thought he was being witty.

   • 2023, Arun Jacob, Christine H. Tran, “How We Learned to Stop SWATing and Love the (Zoom-)Bomb: A (De)predatory History of Disrupting the Live Stream”, in Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg, Amanda L. L. Cullen, Christopher J. Persaud, editors, Real Life in Real Time: Live Streaming Culture, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 103:

     Our institution still operated under the colloquial “U of T” time, where events start late on purpose, to hold over from prepandemic days when the expanse of the school’s urban campus landscape rendered a walk from one class to another into a commute.