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flame war

noun

Etymology

From flame + war.

  1. derived from *wers-✻ — “to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”
  2. derived from *werʀu✻ — “confusion; quarrel”
  3. derived from werra
  4. derived from guerre//werre
  5. inherited from werre//wyrre
  6. inherited from werre
  7. compounded as flame war — “flame + war”

Definitions

  1. An argument consisting entirely or largely of flames by various parties that serve only…

    An argument consisting entirely or largely of flames by various parties that serve only to escalate the dispute.

    • Remember, Smokey the Bear says, "Only you can prevent flame wars".
    • That post was the starting point for a flame war between Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Tanenbaum and a bunch of other enthusiasts, who later became the first Linux developers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for flame war. 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