nananère — meaning in English
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English meaning
- ner interjection A mocking exclamation used to gloat over someone else's mistake or misfortune.
Senses
nananère is used for these senses in English:
- na-na na-na boo-boo (North America, idiomatic, colloquial, childish, pejorative, taunt, often) A taunt or putdown, typically used to indicate that the speaker believes he or she has beaten the listener in a competition or is better in some other way or in a general sense; or an expression of satisfaction that the listener has received some supposedly deserved minor punishment or misfortune (that is to say, schadenfreude). [c. mid 20th century?]
- ner (slang, childish) An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
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