self-own

短语

发音

UK /ˌsɛlfˈəʊn/
US /ˌsɛlfˈoʊn/

词形变化

self-owns 复数 self-owns

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A situation in which someone unintentionally embarrasses or undermines themself.

    Although—I will admit, I'm really enjoying what a self-own some of your logic is. You're like, "oh no we can't let trans girls compete against cis girls because we believe that trans girls are actually boys and everybody knows boys are athletically and intellectually superior to girls in every way and so we must protect our dumb weak daughters from being embarrassed."

词源

From self- + own (“to defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm”).

来源：wiktionary