Home Subjects Archives Quotations
Search: Search Tips

forelash (FOHR.lash) n. Negative reaction to a nonexistent, but already overhyped, product. The opposite, sort of, of backlash.

Example Citation:
Apollo 13 has so much momentum partly because it has been spared the bad press that sometimes precedes a movie. The backlash — forelash? — on Pocahontas ($91.3 million and counting) began weeks before the film premiered, with some critics loudly decrying its historical inaccuracies and others attacking its heroine for looking too much like a Native American Barbie.
—"As 'Apollo 13' flies high, is dissent next?,"Orlando Sentinel, July 16, 1995

Earliest Citation:
And do Scoddish Television really plan to give us happenin' street-kids a new Jock-rock series called Local Heroes, starting in May? Featuring lots of crucial on-the-road/backstage/

/onstage/on-the-road-again shaky-hand-held-video-footage type-stuff? And with such seminal wax-makers as ye olde Runrigge, Stealer's Wheelchair, Poacher's Pocket, Eddie Mair and the Hot Rods, and Sir Harry Lauder and His Caledonian Bhangramuffin Lads? To be presented by Radio Clyde turntable mix-master supreme Dave Marshall, clad head to toe in purple lycra? And am I right to get my critical forelash in now before the thing has even been made?
—David Belcher, "New feminist term baffles the broadsheets," The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), March 16, 1993

Related Word:
frontfire

Subject Categories:
Business - Marketing
Language - General
Sociology - General

Posted on March 2, 1996 at 6:37 PM
Updated on March 2, 1996 at 6:37 PM


 Recent posts:
  jingle mail
  tuxeda
  boreout
  scuppie
  allergy bullying
  IMBY
  agflation
  mullet strategy
  walkshed
  daughter track
 Alphabetical archives:
  A B C D E F G H I
  J K L M N O P Q R
  S T U V W X Y Z #
 Other links:
Top 100 Words

Recent Words

Recent Quotes

Word Spy, The Book

Word Spy Citations

Feedback

My Favorite Words

My Neologisms

Paul McFedries



Copyright © 1995 - 2008 Paul McFedries and Logophilia Limited