Radder

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. More impressive, cool, or excellent than something else
2. Greater in the quality of being awesome or admirable
3. Possessing a higher degree of awesomeness or appeal

Etymology: "Radder" is a jocular modification of "Radcliffe," the name of a place, with the ordinary English agentive or comparative ending "-er" added to it. The joke is that the spelling and sound of the name are bent into something that reads like a familiar word, which is typical of playful coinages built on proper names. The suffix "-er" is one of the most productive endings in English, used for people who do things, for things that do things, and for comparisons. Attaching it to a place name in this way is a deliberate play on that pattern rather than a change that happened gradually through speech. Because the word arose from a joke on an existing name, its meaning depends on the Radcliffe it echoes.

Synonyms: cooler, hipper

Antonyms: lamer, uncooler