dead-naming

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An act of the instance of naming as the target of a death-curse, of killing by naming.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of dead-name

Word forms

dead-naming

Etymology

From dead + naming, 'naming as (soon to be) dead'. Attested since the early 1900s.

Related words

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