inchmeal
adv/ˈɪnt͡ʃ.miːl/
Etymology
Definitions
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