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Incel vs Chad - What's the difference?

incel | chad |

As nouns the difference between incel and chad

is that incel is (label) a person who is celibate against their wishes while chad is (uncountable) small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, punched cards, paper tape etc.

incel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A person who is celibate against their wishes.
  • * 2004 , Phineas Mollod & Jason Tesauro, The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers , Ten Speed Press (2004), ISBN 1580086012, page 90:
    • Though, involuntary celibates (or incels ) shouldn't try to rationalize a dateless season or pass off sexual awkwardness as virtue;
  • * 2009 , Luisa Dillner, Love by Numbers: The Hidden Facts Behind Everyone's Relationships , Profile Books (2009), ISBN 9781846680731, page 153:
    • Another study by Donnelly of seventy-seven incels in marriages or long-term relationships in the Journal of Marriage and Family used a web-based questionnaire to ask people why they stayed in their sexless relationships (defined in this case as no sex for six months).
  • * 2009 , Talmer Shockley, The Love-Shy Survival Guide , Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2009), ISBN 9781843108979, page 15:
    • People generally find it difficult to relate to love-shys and incels and wrongly assume we could obtain romance if we tried harder or lowered our standards.

    chad

    English

    (wikipedia Chad)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) Ceadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh century saint, revived in the 20th century.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • . Also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names
  • (British) The British version of the "Kilroy was here" graffiti.
    • Quotations
    * 1993 , Devil's Waltz , Random House 1998, ISBN 0345460715, page 26: *: "What else? Anyway, here's the genealogy: Charles Junior's only son is Charles the Third - like royalty. He goes by Chip - Cassie's daddy. The mom is Cindy. The dead son was Chad - Charles the Fourth." *: "All Cs," I said. "Sounds like they like order." * 1995 , The Black Album , Faber and Faber, ISBN 0571150861, pages 88, 90 *: 'He used to be called Trevor Buss.' *: 'Chad ? I don't believe you.' - - - *: 'He changed his name into Muhammad Shahabuddin Ali-Shah.' *: 'No!' *: 'He'd insist on the whole name. He played football and his mates got fed up saying, "Pass the ball, Muhammad Shahabuddin Ali-Shah" - - - No one passed to him. So he became Chad .' English diminutives of male given names

    Etymology 2

    Believed to be from (etyl) tsade ("lake", after )

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Chad.
    • Hypernyms
    *Subsahara
    See also
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