poiuyt

English

Etymology

Arbitrary coinage from the letters appearing at the top right of a QWERTY keyboard, in reverse order.

Noun

poiuyt (plural poiuyts)

  1. Synonym of impossible trident.
    • 2008, Ken V. Jones, ‎Debra Creedy, Health and Human Behaviour (page 40)
      Look at the object in figure 2.4, sometimes called a 'poiuyt' (look at the top row of letter keys on a standard computer keyboard to find the source of this word).
    • 2019, Peter McLaren, Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren:
      Contemporary U.S. fascism is powered by our current president Trump's tongue that works as a blivet, a poiuyt, a devil's tuning fork.
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