2 definitions by notedcharioteer
A word used far too many times in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a book in which everyone speaks like they had just finished writing a copy of the King James Bible. It basically means public shame or disgrace.
"By bringing me hither, to die this death of triumphant ignominy before the people! Had either of these agonies been wanting, I had been lost forever."
by notedcharioteer October 4, 2019
The period in the life of an individual born approximately between the years 1945 and 1964 in which a person is considered a boomer. Common habits of this stage include endlessly criticizing the consumer habits of millennials, calling companies to determine the hours in which they're open rather than doing a simple google search, viewing college tuition as only mildly affected by inflation, referring to the Czech Republic as Czechoslovakia even though that is no longer its official name, referring to a conference as a powwow, and above all, attributing the majority of economic problems to millennials.
Walter is at the pinnacle of boomerhood. He refuses to retire, scoffs at the latest iPhone commercials, reminisces that he only had to work for three summers to fully pay off his college tuition, rewears the same 'Nantucket 1970' shirt at social events, and loves to reuse the old platitiude "you can't have your cake and eat it to" at office meetings.
by notedcharioteer March 11, 2020