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callused

adj

Etymology

From callus + -ed.

  1. borrowed from callum — “hard skin”
  2. formed as callused — “callus + -ed”

Definitions

  1. Having calluses.

    • Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns: These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power.

  2. simple past and past participle of callus

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at callused. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at callused. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at callused

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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