what is the origin of the word "demic" in relation to: broken, no good, useless.?

Question

what is the origin of the word "demic" in relation to: broken, no good, useless.?

Answer 1

The Urban Dictionary gives your definition for it, but I can't get to the page right now to see if it has more info. I'm at work and the site is blocked. Here's the link, though: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=demic



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Answer 2

-demic doesn't mean that, it comes from the greek "demos" which means "of the people". "-demic" means "affects a lot of people". From this we get words like "epidemic" and "pandemic". It's not that the word actually means "bad", it's just that things that happen to large numbers of people all at once tend to be bad :P

Answer 3

epidemic?