moid

See also: MOID and móid

English

Etymology

Presumably from male +‎ -oid, after the pattern of foid, itself a clipping of femoid.

Pronunciation

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Noun

moid (plural moids)

1. (incel slang, derogatory, usually by a woman) A man.
   • 2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 162:

     […] not to mention foids calling themselves femcels for not getting a Chad and copying many of our viewpoints and perspectives and terms(LOL Pinkpill? Moids?), […]

   • 2021, anonymous, quoted in Ella Guest, Bertie Vidgen, Alexandros Mittos, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson, & Helen Margetts, "An Expert Annotated Dataset for the Detection of Online Misogyny", Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2021), page 1343:

     “Does this moid even know the meaning of the term ‘butterface’? If this woman is ugly, there is no hope for most of the female population.”

   • 2021, Trufemcels Reddit, quoted in Jilly Boyce Kay, "Abject Desires in the Age of Anger: Incels, femcels and the gender politics of unfuckability", Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture (eds. Suzanne Leonard & Diane Negra), unnumbered page:

     No one here will be debating with any moids about her femcel status.

Coordinate terms

• femoid (derogatory)
• foid (derogatory)
• troid (derogatory)