triggery
English
Adjective
triggery (comparative more triggery, superlative most triggery)
- Easily triggered; tending to go off very frequently.
- 2001, Douglas R. Mauro, Kevin J. Schmidt, Essential SNMP, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 134:
- The last thing you want is a threshold that is too triggery (one that goes off too many times) or a threshold that won’t go off until the entire building burns to the ground.
- Tending to upset.
- a. 2007, antiabortion.com, notice to members, quoted in Miriam Grossman, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student, Sentinel (2007), →ISBN, page 86:
- A trigger warning serves as a heads up that the post contains some possibly upsetting material. Triggery subjects include, but are not limited to, pregnant women, children, clinic protesters, insensitive people, ... anniversaries, etc.
- a. 2007, antiabortion.com, notice to members, quoted in Miriam Grossman, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student, Sentinel (2007), →ISBN, page 86:
Noun
triggery (uncountable)
- Trigger mechanisms, taken collectively.
- 1876 August, J. W. Greene, “Distance of Combs from Centre to Centre”, in American Bee Journal, volume XII, number 8, Thomas G. Newman, page 210:
- Now bear in mind there are no clap traps nor inconvenient and cumbersome triggery about all this, simply an inch hoop iron with saw-tooth notches cut 1½ inches apart and a frame made bevel edged all the entire length on the under side; […]
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