quine

Meanings

Noun

• A program that produces its own source code as output.

Verb

• To deny the existence or significance of something obviously real or important.
• To append something to a quotation of itself.

Origin

• Decapitalization of Quine.
• Senses related to self-reference are in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach (referencing the Quine's paradox), while the verb sense of “to deny the importance or significance of something” was independently in The Philosophical Lexicon.