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Wario

Wario proper noun: a surname from Borana.

Proper noun

Wario (plural Warios or Warioes)

  1. A surname from Borana

Noun

Wario

  1. (humorous) An evil or otherwise sinister counterpart of another person or thing.
    • Is there an academic way to say that one thing is the Wario of another thing? Like, the demonic version of that thing, but the two are inseparably linked?2022 March 13, Cari Hovanec, Twitter
    • His Wario, meanwhile, began spreading the rumour that the vaccine itself was dangerous, and that the virus that caused polio didn't really exist.2022 October 13, James Felton, “Duon H. Miller”, in Assholes: The Dead People You Should Be Mad At, London: Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN

Forms of Wario

pluralWarios
pluralWarioes

Origin of Wario

From Borana Wario.

From Wario, a villainous counterpart to Mario in the Mario video game franchise, from Japanese ワリオ (Wario), a blend of 悪い (warui, “bad”) + マリオ (Mario).

Questions about Wario

What does Wario mean?
Wario means a surname from Borana.
What part of speech is Wario?
Wario can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Wario in the dictionary

  1. warinesses
  2. waring
  3. Waring's problem
  4. waringin
  5. waringins
  6. Wario
  7. warish
  8. warished
  9. warishes
  10. warishing
  11. warism

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