Electric Bone Flute
Troubadour
Usually humorous, at times provocative, sometimes when people ask what a word means, they will give a response that is not in fact a definition, but either a joke definition, or an ideologically slanted definition. For example: Q: "what do you call someone who keeps talking to someone else who has clearly lost interest in the subject?" A: "Autistic." It could be that such a person has autism, but that's not the sole explanation. Q: "What is a progressive?" A: "Someone whose bleeding heart has drained their brain." Q: "What is a traditionalist?" A: "A blind man who clings to his grandfather's relics for comfort."
Is there a name for this type of definition, this non-defining definition that doesn't enlighten the asker but rather only pleases the definer for having said it?
Is there a name for this type of definition, this non-defining definition that doesn't enlighten the asker but rather only pleases the definer for having said it?