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Workplace Conflict

As the name suggests this is conflict within the workplace. These conflicts can be due to people with different personalities that just don’t get on well, or different opinions as to how the work should be done. Managers showing favouritism can cause or exacerbate workplace conflict as can the environment of the workplace itself or the hierarchical structure of the organisation.
Workplace conflict is pernicious and unpleasant and if there is no way that this conflict can be resolved you could be better off working for another organisation.
“Mark and Terry are butting heads over product development again.”
“No surprise there, this place is full of workplace conflict, I’m just glad I’m gone at the end of the month."
by AKACroatalin June 2, 2015
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Spite Monkey Attack

This is an action that usually takes place on Spite Monkey Sunday, some little prat decides that they can best get their self-aggrandising definition accepted by making multiple submissions. They then decide to try to improve their chances by voting against any other definition that has been submitted, a typical demonstration of the spite monkey mentality. The end result of their self-centred, immature nastiness is to effectively bring Urban Dictionary to a standstill.
What’s happening on Urban Dictionary, nothing’s moving? Must be a spite monkey attack.
by AKACroatalin August 10, 2016
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Clouts

This is quite old slang but still used occasionally in the South-West of England. It derives from cloths or clothes and refers to a woman’s knickers, drawers or panties. It is quite disparaging and is used to described undergarments of the baggy Bridget Jones type or things so foul, tattered and disgusting that they should be classified as a health hazard
Her clouts were so foul, they practically had a life of their own
by AKACroatalin March 21, 2019
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Namby-pamby

A namby-pamby (plural namby-pambies) is someone, usually a male, who is overly weak, sentimental or indecisive. It was a play on the name of Ambrose Philips, who wrote sickeningly sentimental poems for children. The nickname was devised by Henry Carey, a poet and songwriter, who wrote “God Save the Queen” and “My Country ‘tis of Thee”. It was popularized, however, by Alexander Pope in his satirical epic “The Dunciad”. It can also be used as an adjective meaning weak or spineless, lacking vigour or decisiveness, and overly sentimental.
The poet Ambrose Philips was the original Namby-Pamby.
by AKACroatalin June 9, 2015
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Descendophobia

Derived from the Latin Descendere (“go down”), it is defined as fear of walking down stairs or inclines; fear or discomfort while descending stairs or walking down a hill; fear of going down in a lift or elevator. The symptoms can include dizziness and space disorientation and in extreme cases it can reach the state of irrational fear.
I do wonder if Donald Trump suffers from bathmophobia or descendophobia.
by AKACroatalin February 1, 2017
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Shivelights

Sharp rays of bright sunshine that pierce the canopy of a wood or forest. The word possibly owes part of its origin to shiv slang for a knife which in turn is derived from the Romany word chiv meaning a blade
Those shivelights are so bright they hurt my eyes
by AKACroatalin February 12, 2019
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Rug Muncher

This phrase can be used to mean a number of different things:
1. A totally unacceptable way of referring to a person with a learning disability; see also window licker.
2. A somewhat disparaging way of referring to someone whose behaviour can vary from eccentric to clinically insane, who is prone to do things that range from slightly strange to outrageously weird.
3. A totally appropriate way of referring to someone, a small child or an adult with the mental capacity of a small child, such as a female suffering from acute princess syndrome, who is prone to temper tantrums, and will throw themselves to the ground and bite the carpet.
4. Possibly the best known and most humorously appropriate, someone, male or female who indulges in cunnilingus also known as muff diving. Incidentally, many lesbians refer to rug munching as “ling” (from cunnilingus) although ling is also a large, rather smelly fish, says it all really.
1. It is unacceptable to call a person with a learning disability a 'rug muncher'.
2. Malcolm is acting stranger and stranger, he always was a bit weird but he’s turning into a right rug muncher.
3. What a thoroughly nasty little brat, screaming because she can’t get her own way! A thoroughly nasty little rug muncher.
4. Look at those two dykes groping each other in public! Get a room you rug munchers!
by AKACroatalin December 27, 2016
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