hackneyed

adj
/ˈhækniːd/

Etymology

From hackney + -ed.

  1. derived from *Hacan īeġ — “Haca's Island
  2. inherited from hakeney
  3. suffixed as hackneyed — “hackney + ed

Definitions

  1. Repeated too often.

    • The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.
  2. Let out for hire.

  3. simple past and past participle of hackney

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at hackneyed

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