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kiboze

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ki-boze
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To search the Usenet newsgroups for a text string, particularly one's name or nickname, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up, as popularized by James "Kibo" Parry.

Example Sentences

Etymology

back-formation from kibozing, itself an agglutination of Kibo + bozo + ing http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/browse_thread/thread/222e8778f60a70b2/4fa5dcbe6d0bfdc8?lnk=st&q=kibozing#4fa5dcbe6d0bfdc8.

Inflected Forms

kibozes (present, singular) kibozing (participle, present) kibozed (participle, past) kibozed (past)

Frequently Paired Words

Kibological Kibologist Kibology kibozer kibozo egosurfing

Synonyms

namesearch

Questions

What does kiboze mean?
To search the Usenet newsgroups for a text string, particularly one's name or nickname, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up, as popularized by James "Kibo" Parry.
Where does kiboze come from?
back-formation from kibozing, itself an agglutination of Kibo + bozo + ing http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/browse_thread/thread/222e8778f60a70b2/4fa5dcbe6d0bfdc8?lnk=st&q=kibozing#4fa5dcbe6d0bfdc8.

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