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clusterful

noun

Etymology

From cluster + -ful.

  1. inherited from *gel-✻ — “to ball up; to clench; to amass”
  2. inherited from *klas-✻
  3. inherited from cluster
  4. inherited from cluster — “bunch, cluster, spray; compact body or mass, ball”
  5. suffixed as clusterful — “cluster + ful”

Definitions

  1. A quantity that forms a cluster.

    • We flew — fur-jacketed moths in the night. Clusterfuls of us on borrowed boards and in temporary clothes.

  2. Having phonological rules that allow consonant clusters.

    • We know from Linear B how awkward a syllabary is for a clusterful language — consonants are omitted, or otiose vowels intrude in the spelling -—— so a segmental orthography would be quite advantageous.
    • Sranan, perhaps because it was spoken on the plantations alongside Dutch, a pretty clusterful language, grew more tolerant of clusters and dropped the first epenthetic vowel.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for clusterful. 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