Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Used as a placeholder word or metasyntactic variable.
Etymologies
- From the seminal text adventure game Adventure (c.1975), where it served as a "magic word"; possibly originated as a mnemonic for the subscripts of the cross product in mathematics. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Yes | No | Report from xyzzy wrote 1 year 29 weeks ago”
“October 1, 2008 at 8:44 am try sayin ‘xyzzy’ to get out. friscokitteh says:”
Spoonin, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Load up Macworld and run a search for any term, like xyzzy.”
“In the pasted URL, replace your search word (xyzzy) with an asterisk (*).”
“Macworld and run a search for any term, like xyzzy.”
“I ... xyzzy: I got my copy of Myers's book yesterday as well, and ...”
“It is a little odd to me ... xyzzy: I'm giving more money to the balloon people.”
“The isotopes found in mid-2008 were not thought to ... xyzzy: I'm a bit more sanguine about the trade issue.”
“If you have runned xyzzy there is a file called keys. txt in the root of your sd card.”
“It is a little odd to me ... xyzzy: I'm giving more money to the balloon people. charliebrown: Engagement is indeed an ugly option - but what ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘xyzzy’.
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Super Geeky Word List
as a techie, I run across nerd words.
brane, polyamide, phb, PHB, BOFH, redditor, grammar nazi, phaser, trending, SPOILER ALERT, surface mount, FMEA and 70 more...
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Zee's zees
zounds, syzygy, pizzaz, zamzodden, xyzzy, zzzax, ziz, razzamatazz, razzmatazz, zoonosis, syzygy, chutzpah and 11 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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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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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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neologism
wiki, neologism, pwned, frag, alt, zarf, qwerty, xyzzy, widget, scullyist, blog
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Mindless Words
That which is without reason.
shibboleth, truthiness, sheeple, groupthink, propaganda, belief, dubious, platitude, jingo, hexakosioihexekon..., wikiality, cliché and 7 more...
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jough's Words
insouciant, ubiquitous, eleven, approximately, gotham, schadenfreude, desultory, batman, abattoir, lugubrious, suave, scintilla and 44 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for xyzzy.
alexz I know this word from the infocom game Zork. c. 1980.
Jan 8, 2013