autodefenestration

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ defenestration

Noun

autodefenestration (uncountable)

1. (rare, nonce word) The act of hurling oneself from a window.
   • 1986, “Rich Relations”, in New York Magazine, volume 19, number 18:

     She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill.

   • 2002, Ian Lauchlan, Russian hide-and-seek: the tsarist secret police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914:

     Ipana, a leading practitioner of feline-autodefenestration, also helped, I think.

   • 1995, Denis Ashton Warner, Wake me if there's trouble:

     ...Lindesay had the misfortune to fall out of a window, which elicited from the Times a memorable cable, which said simply: 'Cease autodefenestration.'

Related terms

• defenestrate

Translations

act

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自我擲窗／自我掷窗 (ㄗˋㄨㄛˇㄓˋㄔㄨㄤ / zì wǒ zhì chuāng)

• Finnish: ikkunasta hyppääminen (intentional), ikkunasta putoaminen (accidental)

See also

• autodefenestrate