Contextualizebeta

rivalship

noun

Etymology

From rival + ship (“a fictional romantic relationship between two characters”).

  1. learned borrowing from rīvālis
  2. suffixed as rivalship — “rival + ship”

Definitions

  1. Rivalry.

    • Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.

  2. A ship involving characters with an adversarial relationship.

    • it took me longer to ship drarry bc when i first read HP i was young and pure and didnt care about ships but now im rivalship trash so
    • where are my femslash rivalships/hateships i want girls who wanna DUEL before they smooch
    • I dont like kylo ren bc hes a bitch. Also r*ylo sucks because fuck rivalships she deserves better. Dont @ me

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rivalship. 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