Noun: diss
| Singular | diss |
| Plural | disses |
Sample Sentences
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I've been wondering what happens if I fail my diss. I know i'm allowed to fail 60 credits but I don't think that includes the diss. [2012 April 5, shkbop9190, “Failing a Dissertation”, in The Student Room Forums, retrieved 01 Dec 2016:]
Nouns inflected like diss
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
4. Proto-Italic *dis-
5. Latin dis-
6. Old French des-bor.
7. ▲
8. Latin dis-bor.
9. Middle English dis-
10. English dis-
11. English respect
12. English disrespectclip.
13. English disparageclip.
14. English diss
15. Originated in Jamaican English or African American Vernacular English, probably originally a clipping of disrespect or disparage, both from the prefix dis-, ultimately from Latin dis-.
Verbs referencing "diss"
Dutch Nouns
diss, Swedish Nouns
diss, Italian Nouns
disa.