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autodefenestration en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɔː.təʊ.dɪˌfɛ.nɪˈstɹeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˌɑː.toʊˌdiː.fɛ.nəˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger)
  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

From auto- + defenestration.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The act of hurling oneself from a window, especially lethally.
    • Ipana, a leading practitioner of feline-autodefenestration, also helped, I think. 2002, Ian Lauchlan, Russian hide-and-seek: the tsarist secret police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914:
    • ...Lindesay had the misfortune to fall out of a window, which elicited from the Times a memorable cable, which said simply: 'Cease autodefenestration.' 1995, Denis Ashton Warner, Wake me if there's trouble:
    • She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill. 1986, “Rich Relations”, in New York Magazine, volume 19, number 18:

Relateds

autodefenestrate · defenestrate

Translations (3)

cmn 自我擲窗 /自我掷窗 (act) · fi ikkunasta putoaminen (act) · fi ikkunasta hyppääminen (act)