"permasingle" meaning in All languages combined

See permasingle on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Etymology: perma- + single Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|perma|single}} perma- + single Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} permasingle (not comparable)
  1. Consistently unsuccessful at courtship; protractedly single. Tags: not-comparable Hyponyms: incel
    Sense id: en-permasingle-en-adj-wufIohOy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with perma-

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          "ref": "2000, Philip Greenspun, Travels with Samantha, page 125",
          "text": "[…] I think he's right because all the nice guys I know are permasingle.\" Permasingle? Is that like permafrost? \"That's what I call anyone who hasn't had a steady girlfriend or boyfriend for years.\"",
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          "ref": "2012, Anne H. Putnam, Navel Gazing: One Woman's Quest for a Size Normal",
          "text": "Of course, I hid my depression extremely well – my unhappiness with my body and my perma-single status only ever came out in public as a self-deprecating joke, and I was good enough at those that people usually laughed instead of frowning […]",
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