cardboardy

adj

Etymology

From cardboard + -y.

  1. derived from *bʰers- — “tip, top
  2. inherited from *burdą — “board, plank; edge; table
  3. inherited from *bord
  4. inherited from bord
  5. inherited from boord
  6. formed as cardboard — “card + board
  7. suffixed as cardboardy — “cardboard + y

Definitions

  1. Resembling cardboard.

    • Archie never becomes more than a cardboardy cutout figure — a well-meaning, not-too-bright social climber with a dislike of “heavy conversations,” a fellow who “wanted to wear a club tie — the right tie, not all clubs being equal.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cardboardy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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