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fuckwittery

noun

Etymology

From fuckwit + -ery.

  1. derived from *wóyde✻ — “to know”
  2. derived from *witaną✻ — “to know”
  3. inherited from *witją✻ — “knowledge; reason; wit”
  4. inherited from *witi✻
  5. inherited from witt — “mind, sanity, sense, understanding”
  6. inherited from wit
  7. compounded as fuckwit — “fuck + wit”
  8. suffixed as fuckwittery — “fuckwit + ery”

Definitions

  1. Behaviour of a fuckwit

    Behaviour of a fuckwit; irksome foolishness.

    • I've got a degree in total fuckwittery, but why is that a material fact, Richard? Nobody has denied that Lady Draycott was Joseph Pilgrim's mistress.
    • ...the 'sameness argument' — 'challenge this whole fuckwittery about "I treat everybody the same'".
    • ...and 'Three Lions' jingoistic fuckwittery that went on to lay karmic waste to record labels, live venues and rock mag institutions alike.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fuckwittery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA