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help vampire

noun
/ˌhɛlp ˈvæm.paɪ.ə/UK/ˌhɛlp ˈvæm.paɪ.ɚ/US

Etymology

From help + vampire (“person who drains one’s energy, money, time, etc.”).

  1. derived from *ōpur✻ — “glutton, witch, evil spirit”
  2. derived from *ǫpyrь✻
  3. derived from vàmpīr//ва̀мпӣр
  4. derived from Vampir
  5. borrowed from vampire
  6. compounded as help vampire — “help + vampire”

Definitions

  1. A person who requests answers and solutions from a community while giving nothing in…

    A person who requests answers and solutions from a community while giving nothing in return.

    • All kinds of people hop onto the list. In addition to genuine ones there are spammers, trolls, dicks, nuts, philosophers, help-vampires etc etc.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for help vampire. 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