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airhole

noun

Etymology

From air + hole.

  1. derived from van Hole
  2. derived from hóll
  3. borrowed from Hole
  4. derived from *hulwiją✻
  5. derived from *hulwī✻
  6. derived from holh
  7. compounded as airhole — “air + hole”

Definitions

  1. A hole provided for ventilation or breathing.

    • For if they touch one another, and so do not leave airholes and admit draughts of air to blow between them, they get heated and soon begin to rot.
    • The youngest son, Vardaman, is unable to cope with Addie's death and drills airholes in her coffin (and accidentally into her head) and insistently declares, "My mother is a fish"--like the big one he recently caught and gutted.

  2. A hole in ice through which air escapes.

    • "Even if it is hard enough, there may be airholes around."

  3. An air pocket.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA