welfariatnoun.
The class of people whose income is based solely on receiving welfare payments (welfare + proletariat).
Example Citation:
"Travelling in Africa, as this campaign began, I saw the depths of human suffering in Mozambique. It left me cool to lamentations here about underfunding of our National Health Service or the shortcomings of our colossal welfariat."
—W. F. Deedes, "An opportunity today which may not come again," The Daily Telegraph, April 9, 1992
Notes:
dinner-on-tray (noun)
A dinner served on a tray and watched in front of the TV.
"Even that most airtight of couples, the Reagans, are reliving their romance in a new book of sugary love letters called 'I Love You, Ronnie.' It is unthinkable that 'Mommie Poo Pants,' as Ronnie addresses Nancy, would have let fat-cat arrivistes use the White House as a crash pad, interrupting the Reagans' blissful, dinner-on-trays, 'Little House on the Prairie' TV evenings."
--Maureen Dowd, "Lonely Passion Of Hillary," The New York Times, October 1, 2000
