A fork of Rural Dictionary
Pure Ownage as used in online gaming to stress your superiority on all levels. Spawned from the root word pwn, which originated as a misspelling of the word own. Hence this stupid word is two screw-ups away from anything close to english.
William's pwnage in that game was complete and utter.
verb: A term used to express one's act or state of elite preformance. Pwnage stems from the word "pwn" which is a typographical error of the word "own". The "p" replaces the "o" because during the frenzy of gaming, the player has no time to correct any spelling mistakes. This word is traditionally used by experienced videogamers, "leet" speakers and others involved in computer minded social or work groups.
"I played Halo 2 online today. I had 24 cosecutive kills... it was pownage like never before" "I let those n00bs feel the wrath of my pwnage"
Pronunciation Key v. n. pwn, pwnd, :pwnage, :pwnd 1. From the Root word Own, and Ownage, the process of defeating an opponent or opponents at various Multiplayer Online Games, including 1st person shooters and Rts game simulators. 2. To Eliminate (a character) from a game whereby the character is lost and terminated including extreme frustration, whereas slamming the mouse and keyboard helps justify the action of destroying ones own property. 3. To describe, pride, joy and accomplishment. 4. To inflict pain and frustration to opposite opponents, where the character : (semi-colon) followed by the character P, creates the word :pwnage. :pwnage in most typographical form creates a "smily face" infront of the word, ownage. Whereby creating :pwnage, which stands for "I'm laughing at your Bitc* A$$, because I just Owned your A$$".
Eg. Upon using MSN messenger type, :Pwnage and Ownage will be displayed
pwnage does mean pure ownage BUT the word "pwn" comes from starcraft when blizzard decided that the word "own" was to much for their players so they put a profanity filter on the game which made players say "pwn" instead.
"gg no re k thx... pwned" "i 0wn u cuz i am teh 1337z0rs. pwnage."
A common mistyping of the word ownage. Some people tried to give it a legitimate definition in order to save face, and this has now become commonly accepted despite the clear origins of the word in the qwerty keyboard.
Yeah! Total pwnage! *oops I meant to type ownage! Forgive my mistake.