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fad

noun
/fæd/

Etymology

Of English dialectal origin. Further origin obscure. Possibly from Old English ġefæd (“order, decorum”) (compare Old English ġefæd (“orderly, tidy”), fadian, ġefadian (“to set in order, arrange”), whence Middle English faden (“to arrange”)); or from French fadaise ("a trifling thought"; see fadaise).

  1. derived from fadaise
  2. derived from faden — “to arrange”
  3. derived from gefæd

Definitions

  1. A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.

    • You're a fad, that means you're something that we've already had, but once you're gone, you don't come back.
    • The pet rock fad was started by an advertising executive named Gary Dahl. The premise was simple: take ordinary rocks, glue eyes on them, and market them as pets.

  2. Initialism of flavin adenine dinucleotide.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fad. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fad. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at fad

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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