zombic

[Jonathan Lighter]

Am amazed that this useful and evocative adjective has not been reported before :

1975 William Dufty _Sugar Blues_ (Rpt. N.Y.: Warner Books, 1993) 222  Sterile eggs--the kind laid by zombic chickens trapped in assembly line prison hatcheries.

2001 Daniel Dennett,  in Anthony O'Hear, ed., _Philosophy at the New Millennium_ (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1991) 27 The Zombic Hunch : Extinction of an Intuition ?

2005 _New Yorker_ (July 4) 44 She explained to me, instantly, that it was normal for children to develop intense attachments to pets, even "zombic" ones that did not reciprocate affection.

JL

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