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Microsloth

name

Etymology

Blend of Microsoft + sloth.

  1. inherited from *slaiwiþō✻ — “slowness, lateness”
  2. inherited from *slaiwiþu✻
  3. inherited from slǣwþ
  4. inherited from slouthe
  5. compounded as microsloth — “Microsoft + sloth”

Definitions

  1. Microsoft.

    • For example, hackers enjoy playing with and manipulating well known words and phrases: Microsoft becomes "Microsloth", while Internet Explorer mutates into "Internet Exploiter" in hacker language.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Microsloth. 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