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doomster

noun

Etymology

From doom + -ster.

  1. inherited from *dʰóh₁mos✻
  2. inherited from *dōmaz✻
  3. inherited from *dōm✻
  4. inherited from dōm — “judgement”
  5. inherited from doom
  6. suffixed as doomster — “doom + ster”

Definitions

  1. Someone who predicts doom.

    • Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently, / And though thy birth-hour beckons thee, / Sleep the long sleep: / The Doomsters heap / Travails and teens around us here, / And Time-wraiths turn our songsingings to fear.
    • The Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has rejected accusations from his successor as chancellor of being a “doomster” on the economy, as he pushed his plan to cut income tax by 20% by the end of the decade.

  2. A judge

    A judge; a deemster.

The neighborhood

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