English
human flesh search engine
Human flesh search engine comes from Chinese 人肉搜索 ‘human flesh search’.
- Chinesemodern人肉搜索‘human flesh search’
- Englishtodayhuman flesh search engine
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Chinesemodern人肉搜索‘human flesh search’
- Englishtodayhuman flesh search engine
Made of the words human + flesh + search + engine
Latin hūmānus ‘of man’
Old French humain
Middle French humain ‘human’
Middle English humaigne
English human
Proto-Germanic *flaiski ‘meat, flesh’
Proto-West Germanic *flaiski ‘meat, flesh’
Old English flǣsċ
Middle English flesh
English flesh
Latin circus ‘circle’
Late Latin circō ‘to circle; go around; search for’
Anglo-Norman sercher
Middle English serchen ‘to scrutinise’
English search
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce, beget’
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Latin ingenium ‘innate quality, nature; invention’
Old French engin ‘intelligence; ruse’
Anglo-Norman engine
Middle English engyn
English engine
Every English word from Chinese 人肉搜索
Today it means
noun The Chinese phenomenon of distributed research using Internet media such as blogs and forums, sometimes as a form of vigilantism against an individual person/doxxing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Chinese 人肉搜索 / human flesh search engine