acquiring
acquiring by L A Odicean December 23, 2011
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Aiquiring
The act of acquiring knowledge with the help of artificial intelligence. Similar to how the word googling became a common substitute for “web searching,” aiquiring represents the new way of describing learning or looking up information through AI tools.
Etymology:
Blend of AI (artificial intelligence) + acquiring. Coined in 2025.
Etymology:
Blend of AI (artificial intelligence) + acquiring. Coined in 2025.
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fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)