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time vampire

noun

Etymology

From time + vampire.

  1. derived from *ōpur✻ — “glutton, witch, evil spirit”
  2. derived from *ǫpyrь✻
  3. derived from vàmpīr//ва̀мпӣр
  4. derived from Vampir
  5. borrowed from vampire
  6. compounded as time vampire — “time + vampire”

Definitions

  1. A person, obligation, or activity that drains one's time

    A person, obligation, or activity that drains one's time; a time-waster.

    • The telephone is to time vampires what blood banks are to real vampires.
    • TV is the biggest time vampire in our culture.
    • Believe it or not, a "gentle clue" to a time vampire is the equivalent of a two-by-four over the head for most people.

  2. A variety of vampire that feeds off time or potential years of life.

    • Do you mean that Jarmyn Thanatos is some kind of a— a time vampire?
    • “I'm a time vampire,” Loretta Vampireclanso-called-jiangshi said. “I can take time from people, or give it away.”
    • But I was laying low, and vampires can't always be choosers, even time vampires.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for time vampire. 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