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cosmic joker

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English

Syllables
cos-mic jok-er
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A higher power who is responsible for various anomalous phenomena on Earth, and whose manifestations are of a perverse and black-humored nature.

Etymology

A term attributed to author Charles Fort. The exact term does not appear in Fort's writings, but related terms and concepts certainly do, such that later writers acknowledge and attribute Fort for the phrase.

Inflected Forms

cosmic jokers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

resistentialism trickster

Questions

What does cosmic joker mean?
A higher power who is responsible for various anomalous phenomena on Earth, and whose manifestations are of a perverse and black-humored nature.
Where does cosmic joker come from?
A term attributed to author Charles Fort. The exact term does not appear in Fort's writings, but related terms and concepts certainly do, such that later writers acknowledge and attribute Fort for the phrase.

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