English Explanatory Dictionary

fnord

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
intj
  1. 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.
  2. A word defined as having no definition.

Pronunciation

/fnɔːrd/ /fəˈnɔɹd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-fnord.wav

Word forms

fnord fnords

Etymology

A neologism from the Principia Discordia popularized in the Illuminatus! trilogy.

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