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Oprah
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English
Etymology
From Oprah Winfrey, a very influential talk show host, originally named en Orpah after the Biblical figure, via en. en he
Pronunciation
en /ˈəʊpɹə/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Oprah.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en female Hebrew modern Orpah.
en television colloquial The Oprah Winfrey Show, a popular long-running U.S. television talk show (1986–2011).
en He was on Oprah recently to talk about his new book.
Derived terms
en Oprah effect Oprahesque Oprahfication Oprahish Oprahization
Verb
+ + +,~'d
en informal uncommon To feature on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
en http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/12/fiction Jason Cowley A shot rang out … 2008-01-12 The Guardian Suddenly it seemed as if [Cormac] McCarthy was the most famous writer in America: profiled, reappraised, gossiped about, Oprah'd, but, most importantly, read. https://web.archive.org/web/20261019131425/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/12/fiction 19 October 2026
en 2015 Philip Weinstein Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage Bloomsbury Publishing USA 9781501307188 https://books.google.com/books?id=CZplCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT11&dq=%22Oprahed%22&hl=&cd=8&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Oprahed%22&f=false [Jonathan Franzen] had expressed to various people his anxiety about being “Oprah-ed” (my word, not his). He was uneasy about being linked indiscriminately to other novelists she had anointed but whose work he did not respect, and she got wind of his discontent.
en Jamie J. Wilson 50 Events That Shaped African American History 2019 ABC-CLIO https://books.google.com/books?id=KEOrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA704&dq=%22Oprahed%22&hl=&cd=2&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Oprahed%22&f=false 978-1-4408-3787-6 704 To be Oprahed means that one shares details about themselves that he or she would normally not share publicly. Indeed, more than one writer has quipped that Winfrey's cultural authority transformed her name into an adjective, verb, adverb, and noun.
Anagrams
en ahopr Pharo aroph pharo
en eponyms