Since the announcement of Mississippi Brightwell University as the new chosen name for Mississippi University for Women, many have been concerned with Urban Dictionary’s definition of “brightwell.”
Urban Dictionary is a Wikipedia-style website that allows anyone to enter any definition for any word. For example, using Urban Dictionary, I could freely create an entry for the term “Commercial Dispatch” and define it as “The most amazing newspaper in all of America.”
The site is filled with absolute absurdity, much of which is wildly inappropriate.
As of Tuesday, according to Urban Dictionary, a “brightwell” is a sex addict. As of Wednesday afternoon, the entry had been removed from the website. Presumably, someone appealed to the website’s owner to remove the definition.
The “brightwell” definition got me wondering what other Mississippi collegiate-related terms have inappropriate meanings.
Before we get to those, please be warned that what follows is more inappropriate than what we typically print in The Dispatch. I provide these definitions only to illustrate a) the absurdity of considering Urban Dictionary a valid source and b) that Brightwell isn’t the only university-related name with unexpected definitions on the website.
If you hide your eyes during kissing scenes in movies or cover your ears when someone uses a curse word, please stop reading this column now.
According to Urban Dictionary:
- Millsaps (2nd definition) – “Yet another term for a vagina.”
- Bulldog (3rd definition) – “Mooning someone while pushing your genitalia backwards toward your butt crack.”
- Bulldog (4th definition) – “A term used for an older man, usually 45+ years of age, that prefers the company of women at least 20 years his junior.”
- Alcorn (2nd definition) – “A girl who says one thing, but will do another if it will get her drunk.”
- Ole Miss (6th definition) – “A nice place where boys retreat from their childhood fears and the Klan marches freely.”
- Land shark (1st definition) – When I set out to write this column, I told myself I would print relevant definitions regardless of what they say, but you’ll have to look this one up yourself.
Considering all that, let’s not let a (now-deleted) Urban Dictionary entry guide us too much on the renaming of a four year institution of higher learning.
Since the admission of the first male student 42 years ago, the name of MUW has needed to change. This is the moment to do it.
Peter Imes is editor and publisher of The Dispatch. You can email him at [email protected].
Peter Imes is publisher of The Dispatch. You can email him at [email protected].
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