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Tinder

//ˈtɪn.dɚ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.
2
An online dating and geosocial networking application, launched in 2012, in which users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles.
"So sure, she’s a romantic, but quite a pragmatic one. “I was just thinking, ‘You know what? I’ve had shit luck with boys. I’ll try Tinder, Bumble and Love Island.’”"

Noun

1
Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire. countable, uncountable
"Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]"
2
material for starting a fire wordnet

Verb

1
To set fire to; torch. transitive
"Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?"
2
To use the dating application Tinder. intransitive
"I haven't been Tindering or doing the Plenty of Fish thing in quite some time because I've been seeing Date #2, and he's lovely. […] I'm not Tindering or frequenting POF because my heart still belongs to him, but up pops a message on the Friday night."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

The application's name is likely derived from the verb tinder (“to set fire to, to torch”), and a play on the various meanings of match (the prototype was called MatchBox).

Etymology 4

The application's name is likely derived from the verb tinder (“to set fire to, to torch”), and a play on the various meanings of match (the prototype was called MatchBox).

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