A New Word Dawns
In an effort to stay at the very farthest reaches of the summit of the cutting edge of slang and new idiomatic offerings, the research partnership of Slanguage (funded in part by a generous grant from the RAND Corporation) often forgo the normal bodily functions including eating, sleeping and even full blood circulation. We may pause from our exhaustive schedules to glance longingly at our Murphy Bed constructed out of old editions of the OED, but the glances are for naught. And it is for that naught that we are able to pounce like a sargassum when a new expression bubbles its way into the cultural blitzgeist.
For those who spend the better parts of their day traipsing through the blogosphere, the recent mental unhinging of Tom Cruise is old hat to say the least. Beginning with reports that Cruise offered Scientological "assists" to cast & crew on the set of War of the Worlds, winding its way around to his unsettlingly amusing relationship with Katie Holmes, exploding into our synapses with freak outs on both Oprah and Jay Leno continuing on to...well we have two interns currently compiling a complete dossier and inputting it into our vintage TRS-80 Model II computer to calculate the sick-disturbing to sick-awesome ratios.
Along with wowing us in the movie Legend, making us cry in the movie Legend, and titilating us in the movie Eyes Wide Legend, Thomas Cruise Mapother IV has given us the greatest gift a scientologist can give. The gift of language. To our mother tongue's perky bosom the new expression "cruise" clings, still somewhat gross and squishy but with a look of wonder and expectation in its unblinking eye that assures us it has a healthy future. Celebrate our language's newest member by tuning in to Thursday's Oprah repeat and see Tom jump, crouch, kick, paw, laugh, scream, and show us all the true meaning of 'cruise.'
Cruise ('krüz), v. cruis·ing, cruis·es, on a cruise. Slang. 1. to act in an exceedingly irrational and excited manner suggesting the influence of narcotics or extreme self-delusion, especially in response to situations that would not suggest such behavior warranted: The homosexual actor was cruising after announcing his engagement to the frightened young starlet.
Etym. [Dutch kruisen, to cross, from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux, cross.]
For those who spend the better parts of their day traipsing through the blogosphere, the recent mental unhinging of Tom Cruise is old hat to say the least. Beginning with reports that Cruise offered Scientological "assists" to cast & crew on the set of War of the Worlds, winding its way around to his unsettlingly amusing relationship with Katie Holmes, exploding into our synapses with freak outs on both Oprah and Jay Leno continuing on to...well we have two interns currently compiling a complete dossier and inputting it into our vintage TRS-80 Model II computer to calculate the sick-disturbing to sick-awesome ratios.
Along with wowing us in the movie Legend, making us cry in the movie Legend, and titilating us in the movie Eyes Wide Legend, Thomas Cruise Mapother IV has given us the greatest gift a scientologist can give. The gift of language. To our mother tongue's perky bosom the new expression "cruise" clings, still somewhat gross and squishy but with a look of wonder and expectation in its unblinking eye that assures us it has a healthy future. Celebrate our language's newest member by tuning in to Thursday's Oprah repeat and see Tom jump, crouch, kick, paw, laugh, scream, and show us all the true meaning of 'cruise.'
Cruise ('krüz), v. cruis·ing, cruis·es, on a cruise. Slang. 1. to act in an exceedingly irrational and excited manner suggesting the influence of narcotics or extreme self-delusion, especially in response to situations that would not suggest such behavior warranted: The homosexual actor was cruising after announcing his engagement to the frightened young starlet.
Etym. [Dutch kruisen, to cross, from Middle Dutch cruce, from Latin crux, cross.]
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