[Ads-l] "neatist", noun and attributive; not in OED3
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Dec 26 20:08:34 UTC 2014
"Neatist": Someone who is obsessive about being neat, or intolerant
of messy persons.
Jeremy: "Don't be so neatist."
Mother: "What?"
Jeremy: "Neatist: biased against disorder, It's intolerance, Mom,
and I can't support it."
2014 Dec. 26. "Zits", by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman. [Courtesy Boston Globe.]
Not in Urban Dictionary! Nor in Google News.
Hits in Google Web, but it's hard to separate out the misspellings
(deliberate or ignorant) -- and I refuse to try. About 42 hits for
"neatist" in Google Books (none for "neatists"), all seeming to be
OCR errors or misspellings.
Joel
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