English
hellthreadhellthread
Compound of hell + thread.
A compound of hell + thread
Proto-Germanic *haljō ‘hell’
Proto-West Germanic *hallju ‘the netherworld’
Old English hel
Middle English hel
English hell
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- ‘rub’
Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s
Proto-Germanic *þrēduz ‘thread’
Old English þrǣd
Middle English thred
English thread
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Popularized in the social network Bluesky around 2023.
Today it means
noun An excessively long thread on a social media platform.
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