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orphan initialism

noun

Etymology

From orphan + initialism. Coined by Dan Puckett in the stylebook of the St. Petersburg Times in mid 2015.

  1. borrowed from initial
  2. suffixed as initialism — “initial + ism”
  3. compounded as orphan initialism — “orphan + initialism”

Definitions

  1. An existing initialism which has been redefined as a nonacronymous name, severing its…

    An existing initialism which has been redefined as a nonacronymous name, severing its link to its previous meaning.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for orphan initialism. 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