different between santorum vs jism

English

Etymology

From the surname of former US Senator Rick Santorum (born 1958). After Santorum made statements comparing homosexuality to bestiality and opining that mutually consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts, US columnist Dan Savage gathered input from his readers and held a contest for definitions to "memorialize the scandal". Savage set up a website which defined the term, and helped to promote it. See Campaign for the neologism "santorum" for further information.

Rick Santorum's surname, in turn, comes from Italian; see Santorum for more.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /san?t????m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sæn?t???m/
• Rhymes: -????m
• Hyphenation: san?to?rum

Noun

santorum (uncountable)

1. (neologism, sex, slang) A frothy mixture of lubricant and fecal matter as an occasional byproduct of anal sex. [from 21st c.]
2. (neologism, slang, derogatory) Shit: rubbish, worthless matter, nonsense, bull. [from 21st c.]

Quotations

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:santorum.

See also

• Appendix:American Dialect Society most outrageous words of the year

References

Further reading

• American Dialect Society's Word of the Year, Most Outrageous category (2004)
• Spreading Santorum, the website created by Dan Savage to document the spread of the phenomenon
• Santorum, background at Rotten.com
• Santorum, analysis of the phenomenon at Know Your Meme by Rocketboom

Anagrams

• Rotumans, romaunts

English

Alternative forms

• gism
• jiz, jizz
• jizzum

Etymology

Originally US English; first attested with the meaning “energy” in 1842, and with the meaning “semen” in c.1888. For semantic development, compare spunk. Perhaps ultimately from British dialect chissom, a shoot or sprout.

Unlikely to be related to Arabic ?????? (jism, “body”) (or its Hindi derivative ????? (jisma)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??z?m/
• Rhymes: -?z?m

Noun

jism (countable and uncountable, plural jisms)

1. Spirit or energy.
2. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
   • 1981, John Updike, Rabbit is Rich

     “ […] the girls in blue movies rub their faces in jism”

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Jims