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wintard

wintard noun: a user or advocate of Microsoft Windows.

Noun (1)

wintard (plural wintards)

  1. (Internet, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A user or advocate of Microsoft Windows.
    • Stop being such a Wintard and at least have the backbone required to acknowledge some brilliant engineering.1999 March 23, Kevin M. “ktaggart” Taggart, ‘Re: "Infinite Loop"’, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, Usenet http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/msg/c036c35907ca1380
    • How come you post all your wintard drivel in comp.os.linux.advocacy instead of windope.clippy.os.worshipper.advocacy where you can be more readily appreciated. LOL!!!2006 June 25, “7” (author), “Re: [News] Windows 98 Users Headed for Linux?”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet)

Noun (2) capitalized: Wintard

Wintard (plural Wintards)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of wintard.

Forms of wintard

pluralwintards
alternative formWintard
pluralWintards

Origin of wintard

From Windows + -tard.

Questions about wintard

What does wintard mean?
Wintard means a user or advocate of Microsoft Windows.
What part of speech is wintard?
Wintard is a noun.
What is the plural of wintard?
The plural of wintard is wintards.

Words near wintard in the dictionary

  1. Winstonian
  2. winstub
  3. winstube
  4. winstubs
  5. Wint
  6. wintard
  7. wintards
  8. Wintel
  9. winter
  10. winter aconite
  11. winter aconites

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