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-oid
-oidsuff.1. Resembling; having the appearance of; related to: acanthoid.2. One that resembles something specified or has a specified quality: humanoid.
[Greek -oeidēs, from eidos, shape, form; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]-oid suffix forming adjectives, suffix forming nounsindicating likeness, resemblance, or similarity: anthropoid. [from Greek -oeidēs resembling, form of, from eidos form]-oid a suffix meaning “resembling,” “like,” used in the formation of adjectives and nouns, and often implying an incomplete or imperfect resemblance to what is indicated by the preceding element: alkaloid; humanoid; planetoid. Compare -ode 1 . [< Greek -oeidēs=-o- -o- + -eidēs having the form of, derivative of eîdos form (see eidetic)] -oid A suffix meaning "like" or "resembling," as in ellipsoid, a geometric solid that resembles an ellipse.-oid
-oid (jargon)(from "android") A suffix used as in mainstreamEnglish to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or someotherwise slightly bogus resemblance. Hackers will happilyuse it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words thatwouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English. Forexample, "He's a nerdoid" means that he superficiallyresembles a nerd but can't make the grade; a "modemoid" mightbe a 300-baud modem (Real Modems run at 144000 or up); a"computeroid" might be any bitty box.
"-oid" can also mean "resembling an android", which was onceconfined to science-fiction fans and hackers. It too hasrecently (in 1991) started to go mainstream (most notably inthe term "trendoid" for victims of terminal hipness). This isprobably traceable to the popularisation of the term droidin "Star Wars" and its sequels.
Coinages in both forms have been common in science fiction forat least fifty years, and hackers (who are often SF fans) haveprobably been making "-oid" jargon for almost that long(though GLS and ESR can personally confirm only that theywere already common in the mid-1970s).-oid
-oidResemblance to, equivalent to Eng. -form. [G. eidos, form, resemblance] -oid Combining form meaning resemblance to, equivalent to Eng. -form, like. [G. eidos, form, resemblance]-oid Suffix denoting like.-oid suffix denoting shape, form, bearing resemblance to, etc, for example NUCLEOID. |