Meaning

1 senses
  1. An act of the instance of naming as the target of a death-curse, of killing by naming.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:dead-naming.

Origin

From dead + naming, 'naming as (soon to be) dead'. Attested since the early 1900s.

From dead + naming, 'naming as (soon to be) dead'. Attested since the early 1900s.

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Forms

plural: dead-namings
Singulardead-naming
Pluraldead-namings

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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