Word Thief
Someone who steals or tries to claim that a particular phrase, word or common lexicon was made up or invented by themselves.
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Word Thief
Someone who steals or tries to claim that a particular phrase, word or common lexicon was made up or invented by themselves.
Word Thief by William King II October 3, 2008
Wordtheft.
When a word you created and made by famous is stolen and re-defined by the public and/or urban dictionary.
Wordtheft. by OfCourse January 22, 2015
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)