Verb don't dis my idea until you come up with a better one a DJ who has dissed every album that artist has put out Noun (1) the refs can penalize a player for any dis on the field don't take it wrong{mdash}I don't mean it as a dis
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Trump doesn't dis his male opponents for their looks or emotions. Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 29 June 2017 Not to dis the Silver Palate—because who would ever do that—but I’m pretty sure my pork tenderloin version is even better than the original. Ashley Mason, Bon Appetit, 9 Mar. 2017
Noun
At 45, Shaquille O'Neal has moved beyond rattling rims, but not beyond an old-school diss track. Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 July 2017 Thinking about this some more, this is kind of a dis. Armando Salguero, miamiherald, 9 May 2017
Word History
Etymology
Verb
short for disrespect
Noun (2)
Latin
Prefix
borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French des-, borrowed from Latin dis-, dī- (before b, d, g, l, m, n, v, r), dir- (before vowels), dif- (before f) "apart, asunder, in two," of uncertain origin
Note: Latin dis- is conventionally linked with bi-bi- entry 1, bis "twice," going back to *duis, but the loss of -u- is unexplained (perhaps from Indo-European *dus- "bad, dys-," otherwise unattested in Latin, crossed with duis-?). Possibly related are Greek diá "apart, through" (see dia-), assuming *dis-a-, and the West Germanic prefix represented by Old Saxon and Old Frisian te- "apart, in pieces," Old High German zi-, ze- (also zer-, perhaps crossed with zur-, Old English and Old Norse tor- "with difficulty," Gothic tuz-, from the Germanic outcome of Indo-European *dus-) and Old English and Old Saxon to- (assimilated to tōto entry 1?); the Gothic counterpart dis- "apart, away," with apparently unshifted d-, has no accepted explanation.