Have you ever, on purpose or accidentally, defenestrated someone?

I have never taken anyone’s windows from them.

I thought it meant knocking someone down a few pegs? Like in an argument?

Totally missing the association with windows. Wait…fenestra is window. What the heck does this word mean?!

[Looks up definition.]
Ohhhh…

There are a few I have wanted to defenestrate, but I have only done it once, to a mean sister, when I was a child. No injuries. In later years, I considered repeating the action, from a much greater height.
It’s still on my list.

I’ve wanted to defenestrate a lot of people but modern double glazing makes it hard.

I knew the term from Lisa Simpson. No I don’t think that I ever did that to a person.

Does it have anything to do with verbally castrating someone?

It does not, but it wouldn’t hurt to shout some profanities after them.

I haven’t, but I did write a scene in a story where someone did. Or threatened to, actually, by painting the silhouette of the person’s body on the rooftop below, where it could be seen from only one window.

I also suggested the same fate for a recalcitrant computer in a story I wrote sometime in the 1970s or early 1980s, when small office computers were the size of refrigerators, and computers the size of a pack of cards did not exist. Much easier to defenstrate the latter.

I have never thrown someone out of a window, no.
Unless you count airlocks.

Don’t even know what that is. So not likely to have done anything to a person unless I know what I’m about. And the reason for it, good bad or indifferent.

NOW I know the meaning of the Defenestration of Prague, when some people, Catholics I believe we’re tossed out of a _____ by Protestants. Causing the Thirty Years War. Well that was one cause anyway.. I do better when I get things in a historical context. Love me some history.

I didn’t mean to, but my knee was there, he moved, then I moved. It was a catastrophe.

No. I accidentally defenestrated a bottle of Ivory liquid soap once. The window wasn’t even open, and it left a cartoon-like hole shaped like the bottle.

No, I haven’t.

However, my wife once playfully threatened to defenestrate me.
I told her, “You can’t solve all of your problems with violence”.

I cat I was fostering defenestrated himself when he heard my gardener using a weed-wacker outside. Thankfully the window was open, so all he did was defenestrate the screen. :-o

No. But a family friend was paralyzed after an accidental defenestration.

I just realized why that term is so memorable to anyone speaking German – @rebbel Does “Fenster” mean anything to you?

Rick once defenestrated a baby possum out the bedroom window, just a few inches above head as I was TRYING to sleep!

And after thinking about it, why the hell would a person do that to another person anyway? That is cookoo for cocao puffs.

No, but I’m now wondering why the heck I knew what the word meant. ;)

Nope, but I did shove someone down a flight of stairs once.

Yes. It is a huge fetish of mine.

@Brian1946

“I cat I was fostering…”

A cat….

Yes I did.

But he paid me.

And he liked it.

Until he died. Interpol is still looking for J the Defenestrator. Call our rat uh, info hotline 555–5555

When we homeschooled, that was a favorite topic of conversation.

We had a sliding glass door, which qualified as a window IMO, because there was no deck or guard rail to prevent defenestration. My son defenestrated himself there. He landed unhurt, 10 feet below the window. I found out about this years later.

Knowing him, he did it more than once.

@longgone….what happened?

@longgone It does, but only because I know a bit German.
In Dutch we have “venster”, by the way.

^^ And I knew it from the French “fenetre”.

It is derived from the latin “fenestra”.

^^ As opposed to furor uterinus. ^^

Angry uterus @JLoon?

@Dutchess_III- We’ve all been there. Even with the window open ;)

Well, my uterus felt kinda angry during childbirth.

@Dutchess_III Young people at a house party. The guy was sitting in an open window, and someone did the type of “playful” shove that would normally end in being caught again with everybody laughing. I should have clarified: paralyzed from the waist down.

@rebbel That’s very similar. I love the sound of Dutch. So much softer!

That’s really sad @longgone.

Air conditioner in the window; out the window. Bought another one the next day.

I accidentally defenestrated my HS class ring out the window of my upstairs bedroom in the college house I was living in. I defenestrated my whole damn jewelry box. Rescued some stuff but never found my ring.
I had chosen a black onyx for my ring, unknown to me at the time that my true love, Brad, had chosen the same stone. I think we were the only ones who chose onyx.

Not someone, but some things.

@AlaskaTundrea, you might have seen it spotlighted somewhere. It’s a word that tends to show up on lists like “Did you know we had a word for this?” and “Obscure word of the day” and “Increase your vocabulary.” For some reason this one tends to seize people’s imagination more than most.

I once caught my cat in midair leap when she was unintentionally in the act of defenestrating herself at an open third-floor window where the screen had been removed.

@Dutchess_III, I picked black onyx for my class ring too.

Great minds think alike @Jeruba!