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celetoid

noun

Etymology

From celebrity + -oid, coined by Chris Rojek.

  1. derived from celēbritās
  2. derived from celebrite
  3. inherited from celebritē
  4. suffixed as celetoid — “celebrity + oid”

Definitions

  1. A person who is famous for a brief time

    A person who is famous for a brief time; a short-lived celebrity.

    • A celetoid is only allowed so much time in the spotlight. Of course, just when you think your life as a celetoid has passed, you end up writing an article about your experience six years later, or you sing a song for a friend at a wedding.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for celetoid. 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