inchmeal

adv
/ˈɪnt͡ʃ.miːl/

Etymology

From inch + -meal.

  1. derived from *óynos
  2. derived from uncia — “Roman inch, various similar units
  3. inherited from ynċe
  4. inherited from ynche
  5. suffixed as inchmeal — “inch + meal

Definitions

  1. Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time).

    • All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!
    • Those who are not thus slippery in the tail, are light of finger; and of these the most pernicious are those who beggar you inchmeal.
    • I am a sanguinary murderer of time, and would kill him inchmeal just now.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inchmeal. 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