ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fnord

Definition & Meaning

Pronunciation /fnɔːrd/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Fnord is a noun meaning (programming) A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.

Meaning

(programming) A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.

More Meanings

  1. (Discordianism) A word defined as having no definition.
  2. (Discordianism) A word (which may or may not be "fnord" itself) commonly held to be invisible to the conscious mind, but subliminally causing a sense of unease or sudden anger when encountered. So used in the Illuminatus! trilogy.

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Related dictionary entries include foobar, floogy, futhork, futhorc, functor, foofoo.

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