Ringnut
English
editEtymology
editFrom ring + nut, by analogy with wingnut.
Pronunciation
editAudio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
editRingnut (plural Ringnuts)
- (slang, humorous or derogatory) A fan of the opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner.
- 2007 July 8, Charles McGrath, “‘Ring’ Pilgrims: On the Horns of a Devotion”, in The New York Times:
- Ringnuts have been known to wear plastic versions of those helmets while standing in line outside the opera house.
- 2008 April 10, Daniel J. Wakin, “‘Ring’ Fans and the Met Lock Horns Over Ticket Rule”, in The New York Times:
- For Ringnuts who may be alarmed by the new ticket policy, there is a modest loophole, discovered by Mr. Hardt.
- (slang, humorous or derogatory) A fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it.
- 2006 August 26, webmaster@themovieaddict.com, “Retrospective: Dead Alive (1992)”, in rec.arts.movies.reviews[4] (Usenet):
- And I'm sure I'll get plenty of hate mail for single-handedly declaring all Ringnuts and Jackson fanboys are losers when I'm the guy spending time writing a review to post on the Internet, but hey, I never said I wasn't a hypocrite.
Synonyms
editHypernyms
edit- (Ring cycle fan): Wagnerian, Wagnerite
- (Lord of the Rings fan): Tolkiendil, Tolkienian, Tolkienist, Tolkienite