Periodt

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Etymology

An emphatic respelling of period, long used to mean "end of discussion." The added -t reflects Black American and drag-culture pronunciation, and the spelling "periodt" spread from Black LGBTQ and Black women’s speech online in the late 2010s, often paired with phrases like "and that’s on that."

  1. interjection · /PEER-ee-uhd/

    An emphatic full stop tacked onto a statement to mark it as final and beyond argument.

    What it names

    It turns the punctuation mark into a spoken exclamation — a way of saying "and that settles it," closing a point off from any rebuttal.

    Example

    That’s the best album of the year, periodt.

    Related idea

    Plain period ends a sentence; periodt ends an argument, with attitude.

See also

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