normie
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See also:Normie
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Fromnorm+-ie,or aclippingofnormal+-ie.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation)IPA(key):/ˈnɔː.mi/
- (General American)IPA(key):/ˈnɔɹ.mi/
Audio(General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]normie(pluralnormies)
- (slang,usuallyderogatory,sometimesInternet)Anormalperson; one withcommonlyheld,normativebeliefs,neurology,tastesorinterests.
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:mainstreamer
- 1980,Barry Corbet,Options: spinal cord injury and the future:
- This place is a sure cure for a gimp's feeling out of place and a sure cure for anormiefeeling awkward around a wheelchair.
- 2006,Anne Katherine,How to make almost any diet work,page200:
- You'll start eating like anormie.In fact, a small amount of food will one day look like a lot.
- 2011,Bucky Sinister,Still Standing: Addicts Talk About Living Sober,page97:
- Be jovial but not a comedian. We have a sense of humor that thenormiesdon't have.
- 2017,Angela Nagle,Kill All Normies,Zero Books,→ISBN,Introduction:
- It is a career disaster now to signal your left-behind cluelessness as a basic bitch,normieor a member of the corrupt media mainstream in any way.
- (slang,usuallyderogatory,sometimesInternet)A person who is not amemberof aningroup,such as afandomor other (online)community;AnOutsider
- (slang,Alcoholics Anonymous)Anonalcoholic.
Adjective
[edit]normie(comparativemorenormie,superlativemostnormie)
- (slang,usuallyderogatory)Like a normal person.
- 2017,"The Grandfather Of Alt-Science" by Daniel Engber, fivethirtyeight.com
- The split from Pauling, and the death of Laurelee, sent Robinson hurtling further out into the fringe, where he found a small but ardent caucus of contrarians: scientists, like him, who had abandoned — or been ejected from — thenormie,left-leaning research community and who made common cause in puncturing prevailing views on smoking, DDT, radiation, depletion of the ozone hole and changes to the climate.
- 2017,"The Grandfather Of Alt-Science" by Daniel Engber, fivethirtyeight.com
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