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sismance

noun

Etymology

Blend of sis + romance.

  1. derived from rōmānicus
  2. derived from rōmānicē
  3. derived from rōmānicē
  4. derived from romanz
  5. inherited from romauns
  6. compounded as sismance — “sis + romance”

Definitions

  1. A close but nonsexual relationship between two women.

    • ‘Sis-mance’, or ‘sister-mance’ (the best I could come up with for a female version of ‘bromance’) was rampant this week

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sismance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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