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pwnage en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English pwn Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English pwnage From pwn + -age.

Meanings

1. (Internet, Leet, uncountable, usually) Ownage; the act of pwning.
   • "OMDFDG LOOK AT THIS PWNAGE SCORE!!" 2001 September 22, Kix, “Re: lo all”, in uk.games.computer.counterstrike (Usenet), retrieved 23 Sep 2016, message-ID <T08r7.11495$cZ6.1186220@news1.cableinet.net>:
   • "The very high level of access required to call the function (PROCESS_VM_WRITE) is not suitable for an inter-process communication channel, since it basically gives the writer full pwnage over the process being written to." 2026 February 18, Raymond Chen, “Could Write­Process­Memory be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer? - The Old New Thing”, in Microsoft Developer Blogs, retrieved 19 Feb 2026:

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