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skygod en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From sky + god.

Meanings

1. (slang) A skydiver, especially (approbative) a thoroughly experienced one.
2. (derogatory, slang) An arrogant skydiver.
3. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sky god: a god residing in or presiding over the sky.
   alt of sky god
   • Anyhow we seem to perceive that from the early beginnings (in the Stone Age) of self-consciousness in Man there has been a gradual development - from crass superstition, senseless and accidental, to rudimentary observation, and so to belief in Magic; thence to Animism and personification of nature-powers in more or less human form, as earth-divinities or sky-gods or embodiments of the tribe[.] 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 15:

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skydaddy