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Rip-Van-Winkleish Definition


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Rip Van Winkle
noun
    1. Someone who is very much behind the times, especially in being unaware of social or political changes that have occurred over a considerable period of time.
Derivative: Rip-Van-Winkleish
adj
    Derivative: Rip-Van-Winkleism
    noun
      Etymology: 19c: the name of the hero of a story in Washington Irvine's Sketch Book (1819‐20) who returned home, after having slept in the mountains for 20 years, to find the world greatly changed.



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