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tickeritis

noun

Etymology

From ticker + -itis, referencing a stock ticker.

  1. derived from *tigā✻ — “goat”
  2. inherited from *tikkīn✻ — “goatling”
  3. inherited from tiċċen — “young goat; kid”
  4. derived from tiche
  5. inherited from tik-
  6. suffixed as ticker — “tick + er”
  7. suffixed as tickeritis — “ticker + itis”

Definitions

  1. An obsessive interest in the stock market.

    • Tickeritis is quicker and more deadly in its action than that old malady, Consignment Fever, but both are exceedingly painful to the victim as well as his sorrowing friends.
    • Tickeritis is a malady that causes a man to stand and look at a lot of ever-changing figures over which he cannot hope to have the least control.
    • Tickeritis is an insidious affliction.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of tickeritis.

    • During the current crop year, Tickeritis has attacked quit a number of millers.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA