IRRELEVANCE, IRRELEVANT, IRRELEVANTLY
ADJECTIVES
► FARTING trivial, irrelevant → 1930s sl.
► IMMATESTICLE ► IMMATISTICAL immaterial, irrelevant, of no concern → 1967 Amer. dial.
► NON-EVENT insignificant, irrelevant → 1993 sl.
► OFF THE WALL irrelevant, unexpected → 1981 sl., orig. US
► STRAVAGANT irrelevant, unsuitable → 1565 obs.
► TANGENT ‘flying off at a tangent’; divergent, irrelevant, erratic → 1787
► X’ED OUT used of something that, while once important, is no longer relevant → 1970s African-American sl.
ADVERBS
► UNAPPOSITELY irrelevantly → 1680
► VAGRANTLY irrelevantly → 1547 obs.
NOUNS
► ALSO-RAN a useless person; a failure; an irrelevance → L19 sl., orig. Aust. horse-racing usage
► ANCIENT HISTORY the past or a past event considered as no longer relevant, important, or interesting → 1838 colloq.
► BIZZO worthless or irrelevant ideas, talk, writing, etc. → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► IMPERTINENT an irrelevant matter → 1628 obs.
► STEAK a story irrelevant to the current line of conversation → 2012 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► STRAVAGANT something irrelevant → 1565 obs.
PHRASES
► THAT’S DEAD that’s irrelevant → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
► FLOCCIPEND to regard as insignificant, worthless, or of no account; to make no account of, to regard as unimportant or irrelevant → 1548
► LEAN BESIDE THE CUSHION to miss the point; to beside the mark; to be irrelevant → 1576 obs.
► X OUT to dismiss something as no longer important or relevant → 1970s African-American sl.
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