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ligma

/ˈlɪɡmə/

ligma noun: a notional disease mentioned to trick the interlocutor into inquiring as to its nature, whereupon the speaker responds by saying ligma balls (lick my balls) as a prank.

Noun

ligma (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, humorous) A notional disease mentioned to trick the interlocutor into inquiring as to its nature, whereupon the speaker responds by saying ligma balls (lick my balls) as a prank.
    • "Hey, have you heard of ligma?" "What's ligma?" "Ligma balls!"
    • If you've been online for the past 24 hours, you may have heard of a mysterious illness called "Ligma". The internet is going crazy after an internet personality, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins supposedly died from the new disease.2018 July 23, Jasmine Girn, “What Is "Ligma" And Why Is Everyone Talking About It”, in Narcity, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2023

Examples of ligma in a sentence

  • Recent reports said that Youtube^([sic]) and Fortnite content creator Fe4rLess died of a medical condition called Ligma.2020 June 11, Mohit Kumar, “Fortnite: Fe4rless (Fearless) death rumour that he died of Ligma is fake”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the...
  • "I just found out he's been afflicted by the Ligma variant.2021 September 29, Cillian Breathnach, quoting Matt Heafy, “Trivium's Matt Heafy "formally disses" Machine Gun Kelly for wearing a "16 year...
  • In reality, they were making reference to a common internet joke involving testicles. […] one of the pranksters had told reporters their name was "Rahul Ligma."2022 October 28, Tim Marcin, “Pranksters fool some media members after Elon Musk's Twitter takeover”, in Mashable, archived from the...

Origin of ligma

From the phonetic similarity to lick my (balls). Modelled after Hellenic terms such as sigma, omega, tagma, etc. as an intentional misdirection.

Words that rhyme with ligma

Questions about ligma

What does ligma mean?
Ligma means a notional disease mentioned to trick the interlocutor into inquiring as to its nature, whereupon the speaker responds by saying ligma balls (lick my balls) as a prank.
How do you use ligma in a sentence?
Recent reports said that Youtube^([sic]) and Fortnite content creator Fe4rLess died of a medical condition called Ligma.
What part of speech is ligma?
Ligma is a noun.
How do you pronounce ligma?
Ligma is pronounced /ˈlɪɡmə/.

Words near ligma in the dictionary

  1. lightyears
  2. Lightys
  3. ligiid
  4. ligiids
  5. liging
  6. ligma
  7. lign aloe
  8. lign-
  9. lign-aloes
  10. lignage
  11. lignages

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ligma (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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