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heelish

adj

Etymology

From heel + -ish.

  1. derived from *hanhaz✻
  2. derived from *hanhilaz✻
  3. inherited from *hą̄hilō✻
  4. inherited from hēla
  5. inherited from hele
  6. suffixed as heelish — “heel + ish”

Definitions

  1. Exhibiting the characteristics of a heel.

    • The heelish pair plotted to make everyone believe that their partnership was on its way out.
    • Grant argues that many takers are good at hiding their unpleasant side from potential benefactors... But that isn’t the entire story. It turns out that undisguised heelish behavior can often help you get ahead.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for heelish. 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