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Triggers vs Triggery - What's the difference?

triggers | triggery |

As nouns the difference between triggers and triggery

is that triggers is plural of lang=en while triggery is trigger mechanisms, taken collectively.

As a verb triggers

is third-person singular of trigger.

As an adjective triggery is

easily caused; tending to go off very frequently.

triggers

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (trigger)

    • triggery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Easily caused; tending to go off very frequently.
  • * 2001 , Douglas R. Mauro and Kevin J. Schmidt, Essential SNMP , O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., ISBN 9780596000202, page 134:
    • The last thing you want is a threshold that is too triggery (one that goes off too many times) or a threshold that won’t go off until the entire building burns to the ground.
  • Tending to upset.
  • * antiabortion.com, notice to members, quoted in Miriam Grossman, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student , Sentinel (2007), ISBN 978-1-59523-045-4, page 86:
    • A trigger warning serves as a heads up that the post contains some possibly upsetting material. Triggery subjects include, but are not limited to, pregnant women, children, clinic protesters, insensitive people, ... anniversaries, etc.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Trigger mechanisms, taken collectively.
  • * 1876 August, J. W. Greene, “Distance of Combs from Centre to Centre”, in the American Bee Journal , Volume XII, Number 8, Thomas G. Newman (publisher), page 210:
    • Now bear in mind there are no clap traps nor inconvenient and cumbersome triggery about all this, simply an inch hoop iron with saw-tooth notches cut 1½ inches apart and a frame made bevel edged all the entire length on the under side;