What is Mockward?
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1) Making a situation more awkward by mocking how awkward it is. The situation need not be awkward in the first place.
Apparently coined by Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse.
2) Mocking someone in an awkward — and thereby probably unsuccessful — manner.
Apparently coined by then-Columbia Journalism Review assistant editor Megan Garber.
Someone asked to define the word "awkward" will often resort to describing the task as "awkward," which is just mockward. When someone does the same with "mockward," it's meta-mockward.
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Referring to something that is simply to much to handle or out of control.
"Trying to get through that crowd at the Hanson concert..
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Sitting on one's hand until it "falls asleep", or loses blood circulation, and masturbating to enjoy the psuedo sensation..
