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audiophool

noun

Etymology

Blend of audiophile + fool.

  1. derived from follis
  2. derived from fol
  3. inherited from fol
  4. compounded as audiophool — “audiophile + fool”

Definitions

  1. A person whose interest in high fidelity sound reproduction is taken to absurd extremes…

    A person whose interest in high fidelity sound reproduction is taken to absurd extremes or into the realm of pseudoscience.

    • […] audiophool who got carried away and turned into a music reproduction-equipment dealer.
    • […] with an audiophool seal of approval. Its price is a drop in a bucket compared with the price of the other toys so vendors are laughing all the way to the bank. The effects of mains-related quackery may be positively dangerous too […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for audiophool. 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