Etymology

-oomer

oo·mer

Today it means: Used to form the names of Wojak characters, or, by extension, caricaturized personifications of a given trait/quality. Full definition →

English boomerbf. ← Middle English baby ← Old English *baba
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰā-
  2. Proto-Germanic*bō-redup.
  3. Proto-Germanic*babô
  4. Proto-West Germanic*babō
  5. Old English*baba
  6. Middle Englishbabe
  7. Middle Englishbaby
  8. Englishbaby
  9. Englishboom
  10. Englishboomer
  11. Englishbaby
  12. Englishboom
  13. Englishbaby boom
  14. Englishbaby boomerellip.
  15. Englishboomerbf.
  16. English today-oomer

Back-formation from boomer.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.