Weird Words

This page is basically just a big dumping place for bizarre terminology that various companies use for reasons that baffle modern science.


 * Coldprickly: This unfriendly sounding word seems at odds with the neighborly image of a certain retailer, yet it is the description of a Christmas related Blurb in Failstation.
 * Frank: To push a rejected credit card application through the system and approve it.  Used by store managers frequently.  "Can you FRANK this application?" This is likely a misappropriation of the term "franking" as used by the Postal Service--i.e., that ink stamp with the date they put across the stamp to both void the stamp for reuse and denote that proper postage has been paid for the item.
 * The Peanut: Also known as a "smart card."  A little rounded thing with a volume control that hooks into a phone headset.  It really doesn't look like a peanut to me.
 * Smart Card: It's neither a card, nor very smart.  It's just a thing with a volume control that plugs into the phone so you can use your phone headset with it.
 * Warmfuzzy: When a customer calls in to say you're a really great employee.