karen — ozdic

Collocations

5

ADJ.

angry, communist, far, former, inner, mad, sad, white

My angry karen neighbor complained to the manager about the coffee temperature again.

VERB + KAREN

called, come, haven't, land, name, screamed, seen

My sister screamed Karen's name across the entire parking lot yesterday.

KAREN + NOUN

andersen's, elson, hans, herself, lot, majewski, s, smith

Karen Andersen's new restaurant opened downtown last month and it's already quite popular.

PREP.

after, from, on, since, with

I haven't heard from Karen since she moved to Australia last year.

ADV.

fully, such

She was such a karen about the seating arrangement at the restaurant last night.

Definitions

name

1

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!

I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.

noun

1

A middle-aged white woman who exhibits a strong sense of white privilege and entitlement—often rooted in racism against minority races—and frequently targets or antagonizes individuals who face greater societal challenges or must work signi

“I pull out the dog treats I carry for just for such intransigence,” he wrote. “That’s when I started video recording with my iPhone, and when her inner Karen fully emerged and took a dark turn,” he said, using the name that has become slang for an entitled white woman.

It was through that performance that Amy Cooper took on the mantle of an American archetype: the white woman who weaponizes her vulnerability to exact violence upon a Black man. […] In 2020, she is simply Karen.

2

Any person, especially female, exhibiting an exaggerated sense of entitlement.

This Karen threatened to get me fired if I didn't give her a free meal.

2021 Adam Korson as Phil Orley in "Ft. Ghost Child", episode five of SurrealEstate The organization wasn't meeting my needs, so I became a total Karen and asked to see the manager. He wasn't available so I took my business elsewhere.

name

1

One of the seven great Parthian feudal families.

2

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Կարեն (Karen).

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Thailand and Burmes

karenic

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!

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02

I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.

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03

“There’s a sense of betrayal,” said the former Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski, who is Polish American.

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04

“I pull out the dog treats I carry for just for such intransigence,” he wrote. “That’s when I started video recording with my iPhone, and when her inner Karen fully emerged and took a dark turn,” he s

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05

It was through that performance that Amy Cooper took on the mantle of an American archetype: the white woman who weaponizes her vulnerability to exact violence upon a Black man. […] In 2020, she is si

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06

“If I lived Chloe’s life, where she was walking around with other wealthy people basically being upper-class Karens having a fit when their dogs aren’t allowed at yoga, then I might understand,” he sa

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Usage Notes

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