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Form. Clipped from auto-tardāre by reduction of the combining form auto- to a- in rapid chat usage.
Etymon.
auto- < Greek αὐτός (autós) “self, same” (modern combining form “self-”).
tardāre (Latin, 1st conj. infinitive) < tardus, -a, -um “slow, late.” Principal parts: tardō, tardāre, tardāvī, tardātum “to slow, delay, hinder.”
Gloss. “self-delay,” “self-hindering,” “to be slow by one’s own doing.”
Sense. Used as a self-applied marker of delayed response or sluggish timing, especially in conversational sequencing (for example, being slow to disengage from a call or slow to react to a prompt).
Form. Clipped from auto-tardāre by reduction of the combining form auto- to a- in rapid chat usage.
Etymon.
auto- < Greek αὐτός (autós) “self, same” (modern combining form “self-”).
tardāre (Latin, 1st conj. infinitive) < tardus, -a, -um “slow, late.” Principal parts: tardō, tardāre, tardāvī, tardātum “to slow, delay, hinder.”
Gloss. “self-delay,” “self-hindering,” “to be slow by one’s own doing.”
Sense. Used as a self-applied marker of delayed response or sluggish timing, especially in conversational sequencing (for example, being slow to disengage from a call or slow to react to a prompt).
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Get the Llandyn Atard mug.When you assalt some one who is annoying or getting on your nerves by squeezeing the lemon on their head and when your about finished you throw it their face.
My brother was getting me pissed enough for me to punch him in the face, but i didnt want to get punched back so i just got a lemon and e-lemon-ated him.
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