Listling With Minor Commentary: 21 Words You Invented to Describe Autostraddle

Autostraddle recently conducted a reader marketing survey and attained over 3,000 responses. One of the open-ended questions on the survey asked the survey-taker for “one word” to describe Autostraddle. 443 said “awesome.”  Some permutation of the word “awesome” were about a third of total answers, including 24 “awesomesauce”s.

There were more people who said “AWESOME” in all caps than people who answered the second highest word, “informative.”

The top ten answers were: awesome, informative, amazing, fun, gay, entertaining, funny, interesting, hilarious, and queer.

This is the word cloud with “awesome” and “informative” in it:

This is the word cloud with those removed to make room for the little guys:

About 150 of you invented your own words. Many of those inventions simply contained an entire sentence without spaces between words, such as “sexylesbianfilledcanofwhipcream,” “MARKETABLESOONTOBEMONEYMAKINGMACHINE,” “evanrachelwoodbisexual” and “lafashionweek” but many of them were just entirely new words altogether!

Today we’d like to share some of these interesting adaptations of the English language with you.

21 Words You Invented to Describe Autostraddle:

1. Cuntilicous
2. GAYMAZING
3. Informalarious
4. Huggly
5. Straddelicous
6. Lesbimagical
7. Fabawesomesaucetastic
8. Relatablemazeballs
9. Gayyyyyass
10. dykedelic
11. infosexual
12. autoheaven
13. informativeorgasm
14. amazeboobs!
15. LESBIANRIFICK
16. uberradhomotastic
17. unicorny
18. rieseble/laneianian
19. awesomecarebearloveyouforeveryouaresaviorsbrillianceness
20. homoawsomesplosion
21. braingasmic

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Riese is the 43-year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish and has a cute dog named Carol. Follow her on twitter and instagram.

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51 Comments

  3. long live “evanrachelwoodbisexual”!
    my word didn’t make the list or the cloud. it was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

    • MY OH MY, I HAVE THE VAPORS AND I AM PRETTY SURE IT IS NOT A HOT FLASH BUT (THIS) LESBIAN BEING IN HEAT!

      ungh.

      • By “this” I mean me, I was pointing at myself and other places when I saw the picture, bless you Katie.

    • OMG I just commented about this above because I got too excited I couldn’t scroll down all the way. I was never very into her but that picture makes me feel all tingly in the best way possible.

      • bahaha I just did the same exact thing, Sally Sparrow. I like this picture better though…. Should have contained my excitement.

  7. Infosexual/informalarious are the two I wish I’d thought of, they’re perfect for describing autostraddle!

    Also dykedelic, but I kind of want to use that for everything.

  8. I can definitely see myself using dykedelic and infosexual in my everyday life, actually not sure how I managed to communicate up til now without these words

  10. I keep wanting to like “Lesbimagical” but something is just—missing. Idk. It’s so just, almost there.

    Lesbimagicunnilingal?

  11. Dykedelic and informalarious are the two new words I have added to my vocabulary, which will later be picked up by everyone I know.
    Creators of dykedelic and informalarious, please contact me :-)

  12. I’m super sad that I wasn’t witty enough to realize I should make up a word. I might have said awesome or perfect. So cliche!

  13. Dykedelic is from Bring It On. The scene when they’re in the car and Eliza Dushku goes to one of the guys, “You speak fag?” and he goes, “Fluently.” And she goes, “And Courtney & Whitney, dykedelic?”

    Sorry if I am raining on parades. I love that movie.

    • I first heard “lesbatron” in the movie Fire It Up.

      Something about cheerleading movies and Les-puns…

  15. English is such a wonderful language in so many ways, as evidenced by the fluid creativity on display here by AS readers. Having just returned from five years abroad in Germany, however, I am still just reveling in how good awesome feels in my mouth or at the tip of my fingers. I have loved this word since 9th grade, and we have grown together, and it has taken on cosmos’ of feeling and nuance. So when I say Autostraddle is awesome, I so wicked totally mean it in ways I can hardly describe. Just, you know, fyi. I am however willing to expand to perhaps Awesomestraddle, or Straddleawesome. Thank you Awesomestraddle.

  16. Ahhh there are too many good ones… Can’t pick a fave. Guess I will just add them all to my dictionary!

  17. huggly and amazeboobs! are going into my everyday vocabulary. Everytime someone says amazeballs I’m like really who thinks balls are amazing? Not even guys. On the other hand pretty much everyone thinks boobs are amazing. It just makes more sense.

  19. Are all the responses in the word cloud? If so, make the word cloud bigger so we can see!

    • Not all of the responses are in the word cloud; it’s just the “significant” ones, which I think equates to ~10 responses or so for the smallest readable ones.

      My favorite of all the answers was “sprezzatura.” Also, “infosexual.”

  21. Not to piss on anyone’s parade, but “informalarious” just sounds like someone caught a viciously casual case of malaria.

  22. The fact that some people used ‘home’ as a word to describe Autostraddle is a testament to it’s kick-ass-ness.

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