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rvense | 11 months ago

Fyllipig is derived from "fyllan" and "pigge" and means "descriptive of something that is both full/abundant and pig-like."

Terryjambled means "mixed up in a confused or disorderly state, and covered with or resembling terry cloth."

Refugglemander means to "to manipulate electoral district boundaries in a way that impacts refugees."

I'm sorry, OP. This just isn't very good.

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InsideOutSanta|11 months ago

It's funny; I'm looking at your examples and coming to the opposite conclusion. I feel like it is very good because it provides explanations for unusual or novel words that are similar to what a human might conclude.

rvense|11 months ago

Etymology is a science. This is random guesswork, and it's not even very precise (deriving refuggle from refugee is definitely objectively wrong).

Maybe I'm coloured by having spent half a decade of my life on a linguistics degree, though.

stavros|11 months ago

What etymologies would you have expected instead?

Cthulhu_|11 months ago

Cool, on my end it said "refugglemander" means "One who repeatedly flees and wanders" (re- fugere -ler mandros)