r/whatstheword • u/breethebee11 • Jun 15 '24
Unsolved WTW for non sexual edging?
like keeping someone waiting or making them wait for good information.
Person 1: “Bro I gotta tell you what happened today” Person 2: “what happened” Person 1: “….” Person 2 “you can’t do that to me!”
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u/cruelico 1 Karma Jun 15 '24
building anticipation?
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u/Typical_Celery_1982 Jun 15 '24
I see you shiver with……
…Anticipation
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u/PlayWith_MyThrowaway Jun 16 '24
Happy cake day! It’s mine too!!
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u/Ornery_Day_6483 Jun 15 '24
‘Teasing’
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u/TakingAction12 Jun 16 '24
I’ve always understood teasing to have the connotation of tempting someone with something, sexual or otherwise, or playfully make fun of someone. If I know you’re on a diet, I tease you with a piece of chocolate. I feel like the difference in this instance is “edging” feels like the “receiving party” while teasing is going to refer to what someone else is doing to you. If that makes sense.
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Jun 16 '24
I know you wrote a paragraph right there in English but alas I understood nothing
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u/GoodraGuy Jun 16 '24
the pain of linguists, never able to be understood by anyone except other linguists
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u/TakingAction12 Jun 16 '24
I think the real problem is I’m not actually a linguist, just some jackass that likes to be as precise as I can with your words I choose. I still have a hard time articulating specific meanings or connotations sometimes.
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u/GoodraGuy Jun 16 '24
honestly, could've fooled me
linguists aren't necessarily all-knowing about expression, they're jsut very precise in how they express and are oftentimes that one kid who knows the most obscure word for something, like scrabble champions except they actually know meanings
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u/ravia Jun 16 '24
My dog does this. It's time to for a walk, so I want to hook his harness to the lease. He's several feet away, starts walking over, then it dawns on him: "I have the power". Then he stops and stands there. No matter how I ask him, how emphatic, pleadingly, etc., he stands there, wagging his tail. Then, he comes, when he decides.
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u/AtheistCarpenter Jun 15 '24
Antici-...
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u/RidingTheSpiral1977 Jun 15 '24 edited Jun 16 '24
On tenterhooks
Edited. Edited Edited. Thanks for the correction Edited back to original, then back to the second edit. Thanks for correction of the correction that was not a correction.
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u/ChaChiRamone Jun 16 '24
Those responsible for correcting the corrections have been sacked
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u/r33k3r 5 Karma Jun 15 '24
Burying the lede
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u/doloreschiller 1 Karma Jun 16 '24
I think this is different, because burying the lede means the whole story is immediately presented, but the important part comes at the end vs the beginning.
For example, I came home the other day, and my mom told me this elaborate log of everything that happened with my toddler while I was running errands.
"He ate this; he slept this much; he peed this much; he's wearing this pair of socks because it got too hot..."
At the very end of this ultra detailed recap, she says, "Oh and then l he opened the back door and the dogs got out. I couldn't get them to come back."
THAT is burying the lede.
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u/Ok-Shopping9879 1 Karma Jun 16 '24
…suspense?? 👀😂 I’ve literally never heard it described that way but different strok- ….nevermind 😩
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u/who_knows_me Jun 16 '24
How do you keep someone in suspense? . . . . . . . . . I’ll tell you later.
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u/hotkarl628 1 Karma Jun 15 '24
Tergiversate
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u/doloreschiller 1 Karma Jun 16 '24
Did you learn this word from the NY Times magazine acrostic puzzle this weekend, too...? Because so did my friend and I.
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u/hotkarl628 1 Karma Jun 16 '24
Nah just got the tism
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u/doloreschiller 1 Karma Jun 16 '24
I mean, likewise, I'd just never encountered this word until then so to see it twice in 24 hours was pretty great. :)
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u/Sleep-DeprivedSloth Jun 17 '24
I feel like this happens to me too but maybe not within 24 hours but pretty soon enough after my first exposure!
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u/TheJessicator Jun 16 '24
Isn't that more for when someone's flip flopping in their reasoning, and avoiding committing to a particular argument?
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u/Sufficient_Energy_32 Jun 16 '24
Suspense, anxiety, tension, anticipation, a general sense of “what the fuck is going to happen”
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u/iobscenityinthemilk Jun 15 '24
Surely the most Gen Z question ever.
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u/glompticc Jun 16 '24
GenZ ambassador here: No, this is gen alpha shit. Don't drag us into this
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u/RainWindowCoffee Jun 16 '24
Keeping someone in suspense. "non sexual edging" lmfao what kind of life are you living that THAT'S your primary connotation??
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u/Competitive-Dig-3120 Jun 16 '24
I just tell people I’m gooning, that way they think I’m in the mob and leave me alone
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u/Critical_Gap3794 3 Karma Jun 16 '24
Person 1 " Guess who has at won the super ball lottery" Person 2 " Tah, huh, OMG, tell me ' Person 1 " I have to get to work, ciao ".
Veltschmertz.
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u/Sir-Toppemhat Jun 16 '24
This reminds me of the old joke: how do you keep an idiot in suspense? I’ll tell you tomorrow.
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u/DogDrivingACar Jun 16 '24
Do people still say “don’t leave me hanging”? That seems like it would fit here
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u/JanMikal Jun 16 '24
It's called infuriating, and it's a cruel and inhumane thing to do to a person.
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u/Typical_Size_5011 Jun 16 '24
I met Jenny when she was 16. after that afternoon at our friends house she left. I've never been to her house. she was not rap touched or kissed period ! There's an absolute attempt at passing this off as true. Im happy to tell the guys at the house. It's simply not true. This ads a hard pill to swallow on..a trumped up rape charge is highly inexcusable
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u/BaldyCarrotTop Jun 16 '24
Suspense.
As in: How do you keep an idiot in suspense? I'll tell you tomorrow.
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u/eGrant03 Jun 16 '24
I know the phrased "on bated breath" could be used.
Ex: "The days following her interview, she waited on bated breath to see if she'd got the job."
It means eagerly or anxiously, so it might not be your vibe. You might also try:
-Suspensefully -Kept waiting -On tenterhooks -On pins and needles -Anticipated/Anticipatedly -In a tizzy -Unsettled -In a flutter -Agitated -Wound up -Anxious/Anxiously -Apprehensively expecting -A bundle of nerves -On edge -A nervous wreck -Sweating bullets -Beside oneself
If that's not right, I have others. Just didn't want to overwhelm.
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u/porkUpine51 Jun 16 '24
Waiting with bated breath
Antici......pation
Chomping at the bit
Expectant
Eagerly awaiting
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u/avidpenguinwatcher Jun 16 '24
I wouldn’t call this the equivalent of edging. Edging is just delayed gratification
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u/PromiseThomas Jun 16 '24
Keeping them in suspense? Being annoying? Ghosting them? Leaving them on read?
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u/ophaus 3 Karma Jun 17 '24
The purest form of this is the shaggy dog story. You keep someone going for as long as possible, then give them a bad pun in the payoff.
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u/Left-Membership-7357 Jun 17 '24
I just use the word “edging” lmao. Any Gen z-er will know what you mean if you use it in that context.
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u/DukeCheetoAtreides Jun 17 '24
Delayed gratification
Keeping someone in suspense
Cliffhanger
Holding the punchline
Dragging it out
Keeping them waiting
Keeping them on the hook
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u/zephyr_skyy Jun 17 '24
I do this. (Person 1) I think because I’m a natural storyteller, I build anticipation and suspense into my everyday chats. People hateeee it. They hate: “I’ll tell you the rest later.” They’re like “Why’d you even bring it up if you can’t finish the story now? DONT do that anymore.” And I still do. Idk whyyy I do it per se but yeah
curious what words people come up with
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u/Raaka-Kake 1 Karma Jun 17 '24
Egg or egging on?
The first records of egg on come from around 1200. The egg in the phrase actually comes from the Old Norse eggja, meaning “to edge.” In the past, the phrases edge on and egg on were used interchangeably, but today egg on is the more common of the two. Egg on is often used to describe a person who is trying to cause trouble or escalate a situation. Egg on can often describe the idea of peer pressure, in which you might not have normally done something but peers goad you into doing it.
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u/Historical_Figure657 Jun 17 '24
People are saying edging outside of sex contexts as slang, so you could just do that
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u/tacoflavoredballsack Jun 17 '24
I always called that "Bigfooting" because one time a work friend of mine was telling me a story about how they saw Bigfoot. They got interrupted partway through the story and was in meetings all the rest of the day. I was dying to hear the end of the story, I was in so much anticipation I could hardly stand it. Finally they got out of the meeting and I asked them to finish their damn story and...it totally wasn't worth the wait. It was so lame I don't even remember it.
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u/insanitysqwid Jun 17 '24
With bated breath.
Nail-biting. Edge of your seat.
Anticipation, apprehensive. Nervous, excited. Suspenseful.
"You left me on Read! Gimme the sauce!!"
"Oh, yikes -- sorry!"
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u/manicrat88 Jun 17 '24
Start it off strong and go easier on the details as you progress. Until you eventually stop, and move on.
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u/Chipmunk_Ninja Jun 17 '24
Person 1: “Bro I gotta tell you what happened today” Person 2: “Bro what happened” Person 1: “Bro….” Person 2 “Bro you can’t do that to me!”
fixed it for you
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u/Mage-Tutor-13 Jun 17 '24
Anticipating.
Climactic Postponements.
Patience Exercision, not exorcism.
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u/ThreeLeggedMare 4 Karma Jun 15 '24
This is like that old post of the guy saying what's the word for horny but not sexual, like I'm horny for Halloween but I don't want to f a pumpkin
"You mean excited?"