zeerust

An outdated vision of the future.

Meaning

Noun

Datedness of something originally intended to seem futuristic.

Origin

and John Lloyd in The Meaning of Liff (1983), from Zeerust, the name of a town in South Africa. By folk etymology, connected semantics to rust.

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