wintard

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noun

A user or advocate of Microsoft Windows.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

wintard1

nounwintard (plural wintards)

plural wintards · alternative Wintard

  1. InternetderogatoryoffensivevulgarA user or advocate of Microsoft Windows.

    Wonder if the other Wintards around here get as large an allowance from their mommies as you obviously do?

    2007 August 29, "nostop" (author), “Re: Why Vists is sometimes no more useful than a pile of wet dog crap”, in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general (Usenet)
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    Stop being such a Wintard and at least have the backbone required to acknowledge some brilliant engineering.

    1999 March 23, Kevin M. “ktaggart” Taggart, ‘Re: "Infinite Loop"’, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, Usenet http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/msg/c036c35907ca1380

    How come you post all your wintard drivel in comp.os.linux.advocacy instead of windope.clippy.os.worshipper.advocacy where you can be more readily appreciated. LOL!!!

    2006 June 25, “7” (author), “Re: [News] Windows 98 Users Headed for Linux?”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet)

Wintard2

nounWintard (plural Wintards)

plural Wintards

  1. Alternative letter-case form of wintard.

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂weh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂wḗh₁ti
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂wéh₁n̥ts
  4. Proto-Germanic*windaz
  5. Old Norsevindr
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ekʷ-
  7. Proto-Germanic*augô
  8. Proto-Norse*ᚨᚢᚷᚨ (*auga)
  9. Old Norseauga
  10. Old Norsevindauga
  11. Middle Englishwyndowe
  12. Englishwindow
  13. EnglishWindows
  14. Proto-Italic*wre-
  15. Latinre-
  16. Proto-Indo-European*terh₂-
  17. Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂dos
  18. Proto-Italic*tardos
  19. Latintardus
  20. Latinretardō
  21. Anglo-Normanretarder
  22. Middle Englishretarden
  23. Englishretard
  24. Englishwintard

From Windows + -tard.

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wintard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wintard

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“wintard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wintard. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wintard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wintard.

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