"This word/expression refers to situations where one attempts to do two or more things only to them all poorly; one would have been better off by..." more...
"I understand this word to mean something like leeway or luxury; I would use it like, "I wanted to be more friendly to that visiting scholar, but it..." more...
"i just read the techcrunch feature on wordie from early december. i don't know the culture there well enough to know how unusual this was, but there..." more...