zeerust
zeerust noun: datedness of something originally intended to seem futuristic.
Noun
zeerust (uncountable)
- Datedness of something originally intended to seem futuristic.
- It also features a nice bit of Zeerust in the form of a carefully reproduced Hollerith card.2009 March 23, James Nicholl, “Since there seems to be a derth of on topic material just now”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <gq8jkj$6u7$1@reader1.panix.com>
- If in a mere 60 years we've learned enough that the predictions of the Futurists then have become "zeerust" today, how long before the predictions on this very blog become subject of ridicule and sympathy directed at our naivete?2010 January 21, Rick, quoting Jean Remy, “The Future of the Future”, in Rocketpunk Manifesto, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2015
Proper noun capitalized: Zeerust
Zeerust
- A town in the province of North West, South Africa.
- A locality in the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
Origin of zeerust
Coined by British science fiction writer and humorist Douglas Adams and British television producer and writer John Lloyd in The Meaning of Liff (1983), from Zeerust, the name of a town in South Africa. By folk etymology, connected semantics to rust.
A shortening of Coetzee('s) Rust, Coetzee being a surname. Rust is probably from Dutch rust (“rest”).
Questions about zeerust
- What does zeerust mean?
- Zeerust means datedness of something originally intended to seem futuristic.
- What part of speech is zeerust?
- Zeerust can be a noun or a proper noun.
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