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English
Etymology
Presumably from male + -oid, after the pattern of foid, itself a clipping of femoid.
Noun
moid (plural moids)
- (incel slang, derogatory, rare) A man.
- 2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 162:
- not to mention foids calling themselves femcels for not getting a Chad and copying many of our viewpoints and perspectives and terms(LOL Pinkpill? Moids?),
- 2021, anonymous, quoted in Ella Guest, Bertie Vidgen, Alexandros Mittos, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson, & Helen Margetts, "An Expert Annotated Dataset for the Detection of Online Misogyny", Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2021), page 1343:
- “Does this moid even know the meaning of the term ‘butterface’? If this woman is ugly, there is no hope for most of the female population.”
- 2021, Trufemcels Reddit, quoted in Jilly Boyce Kay, "Abject Desires in the Age of Anger: Incels, femcels and the gender politics of unfuckability", Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture (eds. Suzanne Leonard & Diane Negra), unnumbered page:
- No one here will be debating with any moids about her femcel status.
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