tragedeigh

noun
/ˈtɹæd͡ʒɛdi/

Etymology

From tragedy, respelled to make fun of novel English-language baby names ending in -eigh such as Bradleigh, Aubreigh, Kayleigh, Emileigh, etc. Now mainly associated with the r/tragedeigh subreddit, created August 25, 2021.

Definitions

  1. An instance of giving someone an extremely bizarre or cringeworthy name, especially one…

    An instance of giving someone an extremely bizarre or cringeworthy name, especially one that is a fanciful respelling of a more common name.

    • Most of the baby names I see these days are complete tragedeighs

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tragedeigh. 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