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nastygram

noun
/ˈnæstiˌɡɹæm/

Etymology

From nasty + -gram. Possibly a playful variation of candygram.

  1. derived from naz — “wet”
  2. derived from -aster
  3. derived from nastre — “lowly, strange”
  4. borrowed from nestich
  5. derived from nask — “nasty”
  6. derived from *hnaskuz✻ — “tender, soft”
  7. derived from *nasked✻ — “dirty, messy”
  8. derived from *naskty✻
  9. inherited from nasty
  10. formed as nastygram — “nasty + -gram”

Definitions

  1. A written communication containing unpleasant material, especially one that criticizes,…

    A written communication containing unpleasant material, especially one that criticizes, insults, or intimidates the recipient.

    • Ordinary people might find a "nasty gram" in the mail, a notice from a lender who has not received payment from a borrower.
    • "Okay, before we over-react... Ennesby, are you one hundred percent sure that General Xinchub was responsible for that bomb?" "A hundred percent? No. But I am sure that he got my nasty-gram."
    • Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest ISPs, has agreed to forward British music industry nastygrams to subscribers suspected of illegal file-swapping.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nastygram. 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