Great stuff by Brian M. Lucey over at his blog here. Below is just a sampling… (H/T Ritholtz)

This started out as a little crowdsourced joke on Twitter, with the hashtag #austeridictionary (note the spelling). A link to the ongoing discussion/madness is https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23austeridictionary&src=hash. I used SearchHash to collate the hashtagged tweets, into a CSV folder, which I  then cleaned up in Excel. Its a bit of fun, but also like all good satire has a bite. The words we use are important.

4: amount by which BBC salaries are multiplied to get equivalent levels at RTE

52:  Typical age at which senior civil servants are entitled to retire on fat pensions

AAA: austerity anonymous ahoy

Acting the Cowen: To deny that a bailout happens when it’s inevitable, and more than likely, it happens the next day.

Adjustment: Deflation

Adjustment= gov process of deciding who gets to live and die, while gov feathers its own nest.

AIB: Anglo Irish Bank Light

AIB: Another Irish Bailout

AldiLidl (n) : A grocery depository used in place of a Superquinn in lean times.

Alivestock= people for export to foreign lands (21st century replacement for slavery).

an Anglo: an obscene but unquantifiable amount : that will cost you an Anglo to repair is say.

Anglophiles: Former c-suite executives of Anglo Irish Bank?

Another Mass, Is there anything to be said for saying  : Economic recovery policy as outlined by Dana.

Arseterity (noun) a pain in the arse brought on by austerity.

ATM  :symbolic, totemic, device used as rallying call to pacify & direct population cf.  The ATM’s will stop working

ATM : a three letter word, preceded by the phrase ‘no money in the’ used to frighten the bejaysus out of Joe Soaps

Austere a Tea: Bitter, acidic and putrid drink consumed by the Irish for generations to come