Loserville

English Etymology From en loser -ville. Pronunciation en /ˈluː.zə(ɹ).vɪl/ RP en /ˈlu.zɚ.vɪl/ GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Loserville.wav US Proper noun en slang often _ derogatory or _ humorous A metaphorical town or city inhabited by losers, used to describe a real place, situation or person perceived as unsuccessful, unappealing or lacking social standing. from 20th c. en w:Eric Berne Sex in Human Loving Why People Play Games New York w:Simon & Schuster 1970 191 https://archive.org/details/sexinhumanloving0000bern/page/190/mode/2up?q=%22Loserville%22 By using their sexuality for bait as well as for pleasure, game players can satisfy both their hangups and their desires and thus keep themselves reasonably contented—on their way to lonely Loserville. en 1997-05 w:James Wolcott When They Were Kings Vanity Fair 441 87 https://archive.org/details/vanityfair441444newy/page/n91/mode/2up?q=%22Loserville%22 The movie, funny but acrid (burnt around the edges), has also spawned a spin-off book, a Swingers manual. Favreau plays Mike, a shlub strictly from Loserville who mopes over an old girlfriend and gets nowhere fast as an actor in Hollywood. en 2002-02-05 Jim Pignatiello Diary of a madman w:The Massachusetts Daily Collegian CVIII 74 9 https://archive.org/details/massachuse20012002univ/page/n447/mode/2up?q=%22Loserville%22 Boston has ended a 16-year run of being Loserville. It still hasn't sunken in. I don't know how long it will take. en 2003-01 w:Kim Masters Who Won In Hollywood This Year, who lost, and who didn't know there was a game Esquire 42 https://archive.org/details/esquire139janchic/page/n43/mode/2up?q=%22Loserville%22 WINNER OF THE YEAR: Leslie Moonves. The CEO of CBS has put the network back on track and kicked off a franchise with Law & Order potential with the expanded CSI. He lost Joe Abruzzese, his head of sales, to Discovery, a highprofile defection that prompted an executive at a rival network to observe, "Les and male employees don't always get alongso well." But Moonves has moved CBS from loserville to having the largest audience in TV—and even to the verge of hipness. en Roberta Hamilton Gendering the Vertical Mosaic: Femenist Perpectives on Canadian Society 2nd Representation and Subjectivity 6 w:Prentice-Hall 2005 150 https://archive.org/details/collegephysicals0000slab/page/150/mode/2up?q=%22Loserville%22 To be a smart girl was to write yourself a one-way ticket to Loserville—population you. en placeholder terms