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  • proper noun informal, derogatory Microsoft Windows

Etymologies

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Blend of Windows and dross

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Examples

  • From whose stone-trophied head, it on the Windross went,

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Windross later admitted he "consumed a powdery substance" while on holiday with his brother in Ibiza.

    Nothing To Do With Arbroath 2009

  • Windross, of Alton, Hampshire, admitted taking ecstasy while on holiday and told an earlier hearing his fitness to practice was impaired.

    Nothing To Do With Arbroath 2009

  • After his first transgression the panel ruled Windross 'could only practice subject to conditions.

    Nothing To Do With Arbroath 2009

  • After his first transgression the panel ruled Windross 'could only practice subject to conditions.

    British Blogs 2009

  • Windross later admitted he "consumed a powdery substance" while on holiday with his brother in Ibiza.

    British Blogs 2009

  • Windross, of Alton, Hampshire, admitted taking ecstasy while on holiday and told an earlier hearing his fitness to practice was impaired.

    British Blogs 2009

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