tinder
nounEtymology
From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind.
Definitions
Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
- Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]
To set fire to
To set fire to; torch.
- Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?
A surname.
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An online dating and geosocial networking application, launched in 2012, in which users…
An online dating and geosocial networking application, launched in 2012, in which users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles.
- So sure, she’s a romantic, but quite a pragmatic one. “I was just thinking, ‘You know what? I’ve had shit luck with boys. I’ll try Tinder, Bumble and Love Island.’”
- Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive swipe feature to its target audience: millennials.
To use the dating application Tinder.
- There is a time to Tinder—sometimes it's a great escape, a great delight, a time of needed, almost medicinal, connection. Sometimes it even yields real, loving, and joyous relationships. And, there is a time to refrain from Tindering.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for tinder. 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