Did you by any chance mean one of these? fjord, ford, word
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
- interj. A word (which may or may not be "fnord" itself) commonly held to be invisible to the conscious mind, but subliminally causing a sense of unease or sudden anger when encountered. So used in the Illuminatus! trilogy.
- interj. A word defined as having no definition.
Etymologies
- A neologism from the Principia Discordia popularized in the Illuminatus! trilogy. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Not only that, fnord, that is the ugliest animal I've ever seen, from this wildlife”
“A loud, annoying one that said "fnord" way too much.”
“The term "far-right" is a fnord, used in this case to mark where people are supposed to feel fear and revulsion.”
“What I find hilarious is that the Wikipedia article suggests that this book influenced The DaVinci Code (as a conspiracy novel) - perhaps I missed Hagbard or fnord in Dan Brown's pop-culture craze?”
“I think I've mentioned this before, (fnord) but Illuminatus kind of (fnord) sucks.”
“Schrodinger's Cat is wonderful, and (fnord) Wilson's collections of essays will make your brain explode, but none of it (fnord) makes any sense unless you slog through Illuminuatus (fnord) first.”
“If you don't see the fnord it can't eat you, don't see the fnord, don't see the fnord...”
“(It technically has a name, and that name is fnord, but it is really just the Old Box.)”
“Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) - ESA/Hubble Collaboration To: null and void; fnord; Number57; KevinDavis; rdb3; MNJohnnie; RightWhale; proudofthesouth; ...”
“Ezenelson26 said 11: 26PM on 5-31-2010 fnord said 11: 33PM on 5-31-2010”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fnord’.
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Nonce
A nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wa...
kwyjibo, fnord, wug, blicket, dax, toma, pimwit, zav, speff, tulver, gazzer, fem and 22 more...
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Words or Phrases I Should Use In My N...
So I've always kind of eschewed the notion of producing 50,000 words of crap in a single month, but somehow something possessed me to try for it this year. Add stuff to this list and I promise I'll...
you're something ..., sticky rice, plinth, educable, resplendent, albinism, bowling pin, tappen, emerod, Hottentottenpoten..., heady, handlebar mustache and 19 more...
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WF - nonce words and hapax legomena
Nonce words are one-time word formations, recorded or non-recorded (which may occur several times within a literary work or utterance). A hapax legomenon is a recorded one-time word formation withi...
wug, blicket, dax, toma, pimwit, zav, speff, tulver, gazzer, fem, fendle, tupa and 32 more...
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Kalli's Words
redundant, munchkin, escapade, natch, boom, fap, geek, nocturnal, pedantic, tactile, conversant, oxymoron and 188 more...
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Words
Words.
fnord, THEY, ExorcisE, subvert, conspiracy, chupacabra, snollygoster, 2+3
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Fnasterisks
English words beginning with fn-, preferably followed by a vowel or semivowel.
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ashton's Words
genocide, boingy, umwelt, zeitgeist, fungible, vorpal, spawn, discordian, fnord, surreptitious, xyzzy, corruption and 122 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Only on Wordie/Wordnik
Okay, mostly on Wordie. But it's more fun here anyway.
brannock device, polari, stupidhead, in toto, nounal, flustrated, stuffocate, firkin, full-assed, placeholder name, pro-text, cheesequake and 408 more...
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amberella's Words
facetious, behoove, akrasia, schadenfreude, halcyon, vapid, wanderlust, bluestocking, drazel, succinct, literati, geason and 116 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Nihilarity
Absurdity, dark art, radicalism, anger, tragic irony, and nothingness. Tee-hee!
nihilism, dada, futurism, rayonism, postmodernity, deconstruction, surrealism, existentialism, reductio ad absurdum, discordianism, operation mindfuck, amorality and 127 more...
Tweets
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HollisIncrease Rather curious how no definition exists for fnord on this site. No doubt THEY are responsible. Although it may be an ExorcisE in futility, I will attempt to subvert THEM by offering this word's meaning. First of all, you must realise there are many different types of fnords. The first one, a fnord, is a peculiar type of pastry that's a cross between a jelly-filled donut and a cinnamon roll, but nobody knows where they come from, all pastry companies deny having the recipe, but they still are quite flavourful. The second variety, a fnord, is rumored to be a mid sized furry rodent resembling a muskrat, but may in fact be a nutria-chupacabra hybrid, and has so far eluded all attempts at capture. The third variety, fnords, are the lint in the navel of the mites that eat. The fourth variety, fnords, are common everyday items like pencils and shoelaces which are the physical manifestations of disinformation or irrelevant information intending to misdirect, with the implication of a worldwide conspiracy. The fifth variety are common fnords. I hope that helps to clear some things up. Apr 24, 2011
blasphamnesia hail Eris Oct 3, 2008
seanahan What are we going to do tonight chained_bear? Nov 4, 2007
chained_bear This word really sounds like something Pinky would say to the Brain. Nov 3, 2007
reesetee No, I'm with skipvia. This is the only word you don't know, sionnach. I'm convinced.
Except now you know it. :-) Nov 3, 2007
sionnach Skipvia : That's hilarious. Flattering, but the reality is that my ignorance knows no bounds. Nov 3, 2007
skipvia One of my favorite scenes from the Adam West Batman TV show went something like this:
Robin: Gosh, Batman! Is there anything you don't know?
Batman: (seriously) Yes, Robin. There are...several things I don't know.
I feel like rewriting it:
Skipvia: Gosh, sionnach. Are there any words you don't know?
Sionnach: (Seriously) Well, there's this one. Nov 3, 2007
oroboros Words'll do that to youse. Nov 3, 2007
sionnach Why have I learned about this word only now? Nov 3, 2007