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Mastoid vs Wastoid - What's the difference?

mastoid | wastoid |

As nouns the difference between mastoid and wastoid

is that mastoid is the mastoid process while wastoid is a person with a drug or alcohol addiction.

As an adjective mastoid

is of or relating to the mastoid process.

mastoid

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Adjective

(head)
  • Of or relating to the mastoid process.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The mastoid process.
    • Derived terms
    * mastoidal * mastoidectomy * mastoiditis * occipitomastoid * parietomastoid

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Shaped like a breast or nipple.

    • Anagrams

    *

    wastoid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, derogatory) A person with a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • * 1985 , , 00:54:35:
  • *:Andrew Clark: Yo, wastoid . You're not gonna blaze up in here.
  • (slang, derogatory) A person regarded with contempt; a loser.
  • * 1999 , Michael Hornburg, Downers Grove , Grove Press (2001), ISBN 9780802199577, page 133:
    • "They look like the stupid kind of wastoids who get gobbled up in the first ten minutes of a horror movie," I said.
  • (slang, derogatory) An absent-minded or vacuous person.
  • * 2004 , , The V Club , Simon & Schuster (2004), ISBN 0689867646, page 16:
    • Oh God. What if he was talking to me and I didn't say anything and was just sitting here staring into space like a complete wastoid'''?'' Eva blinked. ''Did I just use the word'' ' wastoid ?

    Synonyms

    *(drug addict) see also *(absent-minded or vacuous person) airhead, space cadet