New Word: incontentious

In • con • ten • tious |inˈkənˈten ch əs|

adjective

1 causing or likely to cause a pissing contest; inflammatory: an incontentious issue.

• A heated argument in which the participants judge the winner based on the distance over which a stream of urine can be projected.

ORIGIN Late 20th century American English: from Old French contentieux, from in- ‘not’ + continent- ‘holding together’ (see continent 2 ).