burninate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from Burninator, from the original character Trogdor the Burninator from the Homestar Runner series of web cartoons.

Pronunciation

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Verb

burninate (third-person singular simple present burninates, present participle burninating, simple past and past participle burninated)

1. (slang, humorous) To destroy by fire; to burn.
   • 2003 January 13, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #58: dragon”, in Homestar Runner‎^[1], spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

     Burninating the countryside! / Burninating the peasants! / Burninating all the people! / In their thatched-roof COTTAGES!!

   • 2008, Mark Abley, The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 24:

     Although the language may not be going to hell in a handbasket — what is a handbasket, anyway? — some of its speakers appear ready to burninate a noob.

   • 2016, Christopher Ben Simpson, Modern Christian Theology, T&T Clark, →ISBN, page 37:

     These wars were often fought by mercenaries' armies who—while going about busily pillaging and “burninating the countryside”—were often more concerned with (a) not dying and (b) looting and carrying off maidens than any particular religious ideals.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:burninate.

Derived terms

• burnination