zeerust

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Datedness of something originally intended to seem futuristic. uncountable
    — It also features a nice bit of Zeerust in the form of a carefully reproduced Hollerith card.

词源

Coined by British science fiction writer and humorist Douglas Adams and British television producer and writer John Lloyd in The Meaning of Liff (1983), from Zeerust, the name of a town in South Africa. By folk etymology, connected semantics to rust.
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