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Quasimodo

//ˌkwɑ.ziˈmoʊ̯.doʊ̯// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The first Sunday after Easter Sunday.

    "Holonyms: Easter Week < Eastertide < Octave of Easter < Eastertime < calendar"

  2. 2
    A surfing trick performed while crouching.

    "In the end, why not be happy with both, with the BMXes and the pentathlons, with the swans of synchro and the Quasimodos of wrestling? Sweet."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the opening of the introit of the day’s Tridentine Mass in Ecclesiastical Latin: quasi modo genitī īnfāntēs (“as newborn babes …”).

Etymology 2

From the hunchback character Quasimodo in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. The name of the character is derived from the first etymology.

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