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Windoze

name

Etymology

Blend of Windows + doze, suggesting slow performance. First use appears c. 1986. See cite below.

  1. derived from *dʰews-✻
  2. derived from *dusāną✻
  3. derived from dúsa
  4. inherited from *dosen✻
  5. compounded as windoze — “Windows + doze”

Definitions

  1. Microsoft Windows.

    • Every point and counterpoint is peppered with derisive terms such as "Windoze," "File Mangler," and "PeeCees."
    • I've had it with the Windoze Gestapo. They want to make everyone use Windoze. They have propogandize^([sic]) the public through computer publications and large newspapers.
    • My big fear was that they'd use some kind of weirdo operating system, but it turned out just to be Windoze. And not Windoze Millennium, NT, or '98, or even '95, but Windoze 3.1

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Windoze. 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