Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
intj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA 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. · A word defined as having no definition.
A neologism from the Principia Discordia popularized in the Illuminatus! trilogy.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [],
"links": [],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar."
],
"tags": [],
"recordId": "2e289f911f236ae50888c0c57c073e2075faa2c6eb156f1e1253b4e4c777eb13",
"rawRecordSha256": "268e1eeb495b286dafca52d0ee43be41b2fd8177d3df8ea48dfb74e0bc66c2bd",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 6610
},
{
"pos": "intj",
"glosses": [
"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.",
"A word defined as having no definition."
],
"tags": [],
"recordId": "42936e8187d525301c26ec9f0bfbddcee1a0bb993775e76085dfabbe4143f86c",
"rawRecordSha256": "a041164a9c1548f42305094e88289bfea507065c2c4e2610c2030a7a3fbfb4aa",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 6611
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}