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triggery

adj

Etymology

From trigger + -y (in various senses).

  1. derived from trekken — “to drag, draw, pull”
  2. borrowed from trekker — “pull”
  3. suffixed as triggery — “trigger + y”

Definitions

  1. Easily triggered

    Easily triggered; tending to go off very frequently.

    • The last thing you want is a threshold that is too triggery (one that goes off too many times) or a threshold that won’t go off until the entire building burns to the ground.

  2. Tending to upset.

    • A trigger warning serves as a heads up that the post contains some possibly upsetting material. Triggery subjects include, but are not limited to, pregnant women, children, clinic protesters, insensitive people, ... anniversaries, etc.

  3. Trigger mechanisms, taken collectively.

    • Now bear in mind there are no clap traps nor inconvenient and cumbersome triggery about all this, simply an inch hoop iron with saw-tooth notches cut 1½ inches apart and a frame made bevel edged all the entire length on the under side; […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for triggery. 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