11.17.2018

So it's arrowed, really?


'Toxic' Is Oxford's Word of the Year. No, We're Not Gaslighting You.
The New York Times

The word, which is increasingly applied to nonphysical things, beat out others, including "gaslighting," "incel" and "techlash."

"Toxic" derives from the Greek "toxikon pharmakon," meaning "poison for arrows." (The part of the phrase meaning arrows, rather than poison, became the basis for the word.)


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