flyweight

noun

Etymology

From fly + weight.

  1. inherited from *weǵʰ-
  2. inherited from *wihtiz
  3. inherited from wiht
  4. inherited from weight
  5. compounded as flyweight — “fly + weight

Definitions

  1. A weight that moves outward depending on centrifugal force.

  2. A weight class in many combat sports

    A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 112 pounds or 50.8 kilograms.

  3. Small, light or unimportant.

    • The characters of "Sex and the City 2" are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for flyweight. 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