I'm fairly certain the more colloquial version of this word is hipster, or douche.

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I'm fairly certain the more colloquial version of this word is hipster, or douche.

Seriously though, there's a word for this. #wotd
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/2015/09/18

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Amy Rothstein said…
No, those are not synonyms.  A shibboleth for hipsters might be that unkempt beard paired with a supershort spiked hairdo. A shibboleth for Grateful Dead fans would be the tie-dye, or the skeleton tatoo.  It's the thing that identifies a person with a particular group, not the group itself. 

The local pronunciation of a word, so that you can tell a foreigner by the way they say the word.  So in my town, Waltham, if you say it rhyming with Dedham or Needham, you're not from here. We say Wall-tham to rhyme with Wall-ham.
September 18, 2015 at 9:08 AM
Jason ON said…
Amy Rothstein​, I know they're not synonyms hence my use of "Seriously though ... "
September 18, 2015 at 9:20 AM
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