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Uselessnet

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *oissos Latin ūsus Old French usbor. Middle English use English use Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English useless English Usenet blend English Uselessnet Blend of useless + Usenet.

  1. derived from *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English useless English Usenet blend English Uselessnet Blend of useless + Usenet✻
  2. derived from use English use Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der
  3. derived from *oissos Latin ūsus Old French usbor✻

Definitions

  1. Usenet.

    • Doesn't anyone out there in the bowels (I use the term advisedly) of the Uselessnet remember that the reason that newsgroups were invented, was so we could see items of interest SEGREGATED INTO TOPICS OF INTEREST???
    • and you take that personal? It's uselessnet.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Uselessnet. 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