neepery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Trivia or highly-detailed information, especially that which an author includes in a work of fiction as a result of research.
Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "But all this, he realized, was something he'd learned over the course of years with the Rebellion, years of dealing with the sophisticated technologies and scientific neepery available on Coruscant and its inner worlds."
- ""…so we've got a LAN hooking up the office, the stable, and the kitchen, since your mom has access to the database if we get a call from a customer and I'm out in the fields," Dad said, as Tannim's head spun under the burden of all the computer neepery."
- "Technical neepery -- it is not necessary or desirable for rope to grip pulleys."
- "Thank you, SF-FWs, bryant street, IAMTW, and novelscribes for various neepery and encouragement; […]"
- "[…] to Susan McCrackin for financial aid neepery, […]"
- "C. C. Finlay's marvelous book Patriot Witch, the first in his Traitor to the Crown Series, is a beautiful example of a novel that inserts necessary neepery without bogging down the story."
Etymology
From neep-neep, slang for a computer enthusiast, which reportedly arose at the California Institute of Technology in the 1970s.