wizard

Meanings

1. Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
2. One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field.
3. A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.
4. An administrator of a multi-user dungeon, or someone who has earned similar rights through gameplay; a user in wizard mode.
5. A wise man; a sage.
6. A virgin over the age of 30 who does not socialize and thus cannot find a sexual partner.

1. Fine, superb (originally RAF slang).

1. To practice wizardry.
2. To conjure.

Etymology

From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval Anglo-Saxon word with no known morphologically exact cognates inside the Germanic family; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance. However, via Proto-Indo-European *weyd- cognate with Proto-Celtic *druwits (whence English druid), Proto-Slavic *vědьma (Polish wiedźma, Russian ве́дьма (védʹma)), Russian веду́н (vedún)). The sense of "old (male) virgin" is from a Japanese Internet meme where virgins who are typically friendless, shy, outcasts, and loners who don't fit in anywhere, legendarily gain magical powers upon reaching 30 years of age; popularized ultimately by 4chan and adjacent online incel spaces. Compare typologically specialist (<< Latin speciō).