Contextualizebeta

fillgap

noun

Etymology

From fill + gap. Compare stopgap.

  1. derived from *ǵʰeh₂-✻ — “to open wide, gape”
  2. derived from *gapōną✻
  3. derived from gap — “an empty space, gap, chasm”
  4. inherited from gap//gappe
  5. compounded as fillgap — “fill + gap”

Definitions

  1. That which fills a gap, or serves as a short-term temporary fix until something better…

    That which fills a gap, or serves as a short-term temporary fix until something better comes along.

  2. Speech or text that takes up time or space but conveys little to no meaning

    Speech or text that takes up time or space but conveys little to no meaning; fluff.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fillgap. 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