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What is internecine?
When one or more women derides another woman or group of women for not following a (often meaningless) social convention, generally motivated by obvious jealousy or an unwillingness to see someone of their own minority group get ahead. This is similar to the "crabs in a bucket" phenomenon where crabs will damage one another in order to be the last one killed.
Jennifer: "Did you see Kate all over that guy at the bar? What a slut! And she dresses so slutty too!"
Alex: "Geez, talk about your internecine female vindictiveness."
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Internecine - what is it?
pronounced IN-ter-NEE-sin. It comes from the Latin: "inter" (between, among) and "necare" (to kill). It means a conflict destructive to both sides, or very bloody. We do tend to use it to describe civil wars.
The United States fought a terrible internecine war from 1861 to 1865