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Ironeeee

Not exactly from m-w.com…

Main Entry:
iro·neeee
\??-r?-n?? also ??(-?)r-n??\
Function:
noun
Inflected Form(s):
plural iro·nieeeeeees
Infected Form(s):
puss-filled iro·nieeeeeees
Etymology:
Latin ironia, from Greek eir?nia, from eir?n dissembler
Date:
1502-ish

1: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other’s false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning —called also Socratic irony
2 : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
3 : Being too busy working deeply in launching, building and supporting social communities and environments to actually ever read, comment on or post blogs myself and feeling wholly disconnected.

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