virch
English edit
Etymology edit
Shortening.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /vɝt͡ʃ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɜːtʃ/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Noun edit
virch (countable and uncountable, plural virches)
- (informal, science fiction) virtual reality
- 1995, Michael Bishop, “Cri de Coeur”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection, page 428:
- (He won't use virch goggles; their simulated environments cut him off too thoroughly from me, and that scares him.)
- 2002, Candas Jane Dorsey, A Paradigm of Earth, page 108:
- "Yeah. Why vid, anyway? Why not virch?"
- 2015, James Bradley, Clade, unnumbered page:
- Knowing Noah will be content in his virch for as long as he is left undisturbed, she begins mapping new ideas […]