onwijs
Meaning
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- unwise
- incredible, astonishing
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Hyphenated as
on‧wijs
Etymology
From Middle Dutch onwijs (“unwise”). Equivalent to on- + wijs. The sense of "incredible" became popular in youth-speak around 1980.
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