serfitude
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From serf, perhaps influenced by servitude.
Noun
[edit]serfitude (uncountable)
- (rare) Synonym of serfdom (“the condition of being a serf”)
- 1985, Joe Adamson, The Walter Lantz Story: With Woody Woodpecker and Friends, Putnam Adult:
- The talk in their little hamlet in the province of Cosenza, where the Lanzas had been known for generations for their fine castile soap, played up America as a place where accidents of birth didn't doom you to a lifetime of serfitude […]
- (Can we date this quote?), Robert Winthrop Curley, So Far Out That He's In: Opinions from an Opinionated Journalist, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 274:
- Before you know it you are twitterpated and on your way to 30 years of “serfitude” working morn and night to refill a refrigerator that is the favorite meeting place ofa half-dozen fat locusts with thyroid conditions.