Meanings
present singular third person burninates · participle present burninating · participle past burninated · past burninated
- humorousslangTo destroy by fire; to burn.
Burninating the countryside! / Burninating the peasants! / Burninating all the people! / In their thatched-roof COTTAGES!!
2003 January 13, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #58: dragon”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman)2 more examples
Although the language may not be going to hell in a handbasket — what is a handbasket, anyway? — some of its speakers appear ready to burninate a noob.
2008, Mark Abley, The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 24These wars were often fought by mercenaries' armies who—while going about busily pillaging and “burninating the countryside”—were often more concerned with (a) not dying and (b) looting and carrying off maidens than any particular religious ideals.
2016, Christopher Ben Simpson, Modern Christian Theology, T&T Clark, →ISBN, page 37
Origin
Back-formation from Burninator, from the original character Trogdor the Burninator from the Homestar Runner series of web cartoons, from burn + -inator.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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