wojak
/ˈwoʊ.d͡ʒæk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Wojak.
Example Sentences
- "Arguably the most potent version of that meme merges the heatmaps with a multipurpose version of the IQ bell curve, populated with three “wojaks” on the stupid, middlebrow, and supersmart bits of that curve. The liberal heatmap is paired with the figure in the meaty middle of the graph, while the conservative one fits with the narrower extremes of the IQ spectrum."
- "From the original manifestation of a wistful look to the meme of two Wojaks hugging with the tag “I know that feel bro,” he has taken on contexts in male-dominated internet spaces that signify a brotherhood of sorts."
- "Owing to their coarsely drawn, unyielding masculine outlines, Wojaks are especially compatible with efforts to channel aggression."
- "These figures, which regularly appear as characters in other meme formats, make variants of Doomer (male, female, boy, etc.) one of the most prevalent meme tropes of the early 2020s, with both a vertical reach (as straight copies of the original Doomer format) and a horizontal one (as variants in form, gender, and age, and, since late 2020, race – with Black Wojaks going viral)."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Balto-Slavic *wájas Proto-Slavic *vojь Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂kos Proto-Balto-Slavic *-āˀkas Proto-Slavic *-akъ Proto-Slavic *vojakъ Polish wojakbor. English Wojak From the Internet meme Wojak, a cartoon drawing of a bald man with a wistful or melancholic expression. The original image was posted on vichan, a Polish imageboard, in 2009, and was later reposted to the German imageboard krautchan in 2010 by a Polish user called "wojak"; the username is from Polish wojak (“soldier; fighter”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wojak
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Military.