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internym

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

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noun

Meaning 1

A phrase or epithet, particularly one intended to be witty, inserted in quotation marks between one's first and last names—or elsewhere by or in one's name, if this is not possible—at the end of a post.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet

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History

Etymology

From inter- + -nym. Coined by Madeleine Page in the Internet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban.