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    [Noun]  | "dirge" | \ ˈdərj \


    1: a song or hymn of grief or lamentation; especially : one intended to accompany funeral or memorial rites

    2: a slow, solemn, and mournful piece of music

    3: something (such as a poem) that has the qualities of a dirge


    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English dirige, the Office of the Dead, from the first word of a Late Latin antiphon, from Latin, imperative of dirigere to direct {mat|dress|};

    [Noun]  | "dirges" 


    1: a composition expressing one's grief over a loss;


      * e.g., " ... bagpipes played a haunting dirge at the funeral for the fallen leader "



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    [Noun]  | "dirge" 


    1: a composition expressing one's grief over a loss;


      * e.g., " ... bagpipes played a haunting dirge at the funeral for the fallen leader "



    •  Antonyms : 

    • (N/A)





     [ "Dirge" ]

    1: Dirge is an epic dagger from the mmorpg wow, wich one day for unknown reasons, became the object of the longest spam session in tradechat ever.

      * e.g.,  ... Silvermoon server trade channel: 

     [ "dirge" ]

    1: a song played during a funeral

      * e.g.,  ... "A dirge for her, the doubly dead. In that she died so young" ~ A verse in Edgaer Allen Poe's "Lenore" 

     [ "dirge" ]

    1: An item within the game World of Warcraft of "epic" quality. The item has been the subject of an in-game fad, where it has been exessively linked in chat channels (spammed), usually in along with attempts at a humorous segway, and/or replacing a word in a sentence with the item name.

      * e.g.,  ... This is madness! Madness? This is Dirge! 


     [ "dirge" ]

    2: Responses to the spamming, which can occur over several hours/days, is usually received with contempt, which incites the bandwagoners to increase their spamming.

     [ "dirge" ]

    1: A sad pirate song, played during times of extreme lamentation.

      * e.g.,  ... The sad, sad Pirate played a dirge on his concertina. 

     [ "dirg" ]

    1: expression: used to display fustration with incompetent people or situations.

      * e.g.,  ... I broke up with her and now youve invited her to the party, we were friends before her. Dirg. 

     [ "dirge" ]

    1: a long, drawn out, soul draining noise

      * e.g.,  ... the chapel organist played his all too familiar dirge to welcome us to our dutiful prayer 

     [ "Dirge" ]

    1: Australian slang for a cone of bong resin mixed with tobacco. Often smoked as a last resort.

      * e.g.,  ... "I'm out of choof and I'm broke! We're fucked!" 

     [ "Dirge" ]

    1: One of the six scout class found in the online multiplayer game, Everquest 2. Dirges have musical spells and are generally considered a support utility class used for providing offensive group buffs to other Fighter and Scout classes ingroup.

      * e.g.,  ... I play a dirge to help our raid group DPS more... 

     [ "dirge" ]

    1: Another term to mean the same as rubbish.

      * e.g.,  ... "What did you think of the new album?" 

     [ "Dirge" ]

    1: Codeword often used by homosexual predators to announce their presence to other predators in a cyber-environment. This is to ensure they don't accidentally court each other into a conversation. These types of predators generally are homosexual and pedophiles.

      * e.g.,  ... World of Warcraft: 

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