Tinder

See also: tinder

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Tinder (plural Tinders)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tinder is the 26727^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 911 individuals. Tinder is most common among White (88.36%) individuals.

Etymology 2

Tinder

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).

Proper noun

Tinder

1. 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.
   • 2022 October 15, Zoe Williams, “Love Island winner Ekin-Su on sex, spin-offs and surgery: ‘I’ve not had anything major done. OK, apart from the boobs’”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.’”

Derived terms

• Tinderella
• Tinderer
• Tinderite

 

Verb

Tinder (third-person singular simple present Tinders, present participle Tindering, simple past and past participle Tindered)

1. (social media, intransitive) To use the dating application Tinder.
   • 2016 March 7, Khaley Fenn, edited by Alexandria Santamaria, Swipe Right‎^[2], FriesenPress, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2017 September 29, Tim Delaney, Tim Madigan, “4. Electronic Friendships”, in Friendship and Happiness And the Connection Between the Two, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, →ISBN, page 147:

     With Tinder, the pretext is to hook-up, but the real pleasure is derived from the Tindering process. […] Summing up the Tindering experience, Tinderers would rather judge 50 pictures in two minutes than spend 50 minutes assessing one potential partner in a traditional face-on-face dating environment.

   • 2021 August 17, Merissa Nathan Gerson, Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman's Guide to Grieving‎^[3], Mandala Publishing, →ISBN, page 64:

     There is a time to Tinder—sometimes it's a great escape, a great delight, a time of needed, almost medicinal, connection. Sometimes it even yields real, loving, and joyous relationships. And, there is a time to refrain from Tindering.

Alternative forms

• tinder

Translations

to use the dating application Tinder

• German: tindern (de)

Anagrams

• dirten, rident, trined

Alemannic German

Noun

Tinder m

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References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 71.