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beigeist

noun

Etymology

From beige + -ist, coined by writer Mark Ames.

  1. derived from βύσσος — “cotton homespun”
  2. derived from byssus — “cotton”
  3. derived from *bysseus✻
  4. derived from bege
  5. suffixed as beigeist — “beige + ist”

Definitions

  1. A sellout

    A sellout; a conformist to bourgeois or corporate mediocracy.

    • Somewhere in the cruise-control synapses of McFaul's beigeist brain, he senses that his arrest and trial is a real possibility.

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