stylemog

stylemog

English

Etymology

Blend of Style (“pseudonym of Neil Strauss in the seduction community”) + AMOG, reportedly coined by Owen "Tyler Durden" Cook.

Verb

stylemog (third-person singular simple present stylemogs, present participle stylemogging, simple past and past participle stylemogged)

1. (seduction community) To talk down to someone by complimenting them as if from a position of authority on the compliment's subject.
   • 2005, Strauss, Neil, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, Text Publishing Company, →ISBN, OL 8777451M, page 292:

     “What? I just said ‘awesome.’ That’s because I think it’s hilarious. Seriously, I can't wait to read it.”
     They all laughed again. Evidently I was Stylemogging them.

   • 2005 September 3, “Operation pick-up”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, ISSN 0140-0460:

     Strauss himself created “Stylemogging”, a more subtle technique in which one uses barbed compliments to establish oneself as the supreme arbitrator of whatever is under discussion. “You’ve got better at that, a bit,” is apparently a classic Stylemogging comment.

   • 2010 May 25, Bernd Jendrissek, “Re: Anomalous event code: 24052010/1”, in alt.support.shyness, Usenet‎, message-ID <[e-mail]>:

     I think what you did was okay. Keep up the good work. </stylemog>

Hypernyms

• patronize