English Explanatory Dictionary

Etsian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A seller on the American e-commerce service Etsy.

Word forms

Etsian Etsians

Etymology

From Etsy + -ian (“one from, belonging to”); Etsy was named in June 2005 by co-founder Robert Kalin as a nonsense word inspired by the Italian phrase eh, si (“huh, yes”), which he repeatedly heard in the film 8½ (1963) and erroneously transcribed as etsi.

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