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scoper

noun

Etymology

An allusion to the derogatory slur spastic, following the renaming of the National Spastics Society, a UK disability charity, to Scope in 1994.

  1. derived from *speḱ-✻
  2. derived from σκοπός
  3. derived from scopus
  4. derived from scopo
  5. formed as scoper — “scope + -er”

Definitions

  1. One who or that which scopes.

    • That's the role of scopers, to map out the limitations, parameters and dimensions of the problem and its likely solutions. Scopers tell us what now.

  2. Synonym of spastic (“stupid, clumsy person”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scoper. 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