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joey word

noun

Etymology

From joey (“junior kangaroo”) + word.

  1. inherited from *werdʰh₁om✻ — “word”
  2. inherited from *wurdą✻ — “word”
  3. inherited from *word✻
  4. inherited from word
  5. inherited from word
  6. compounded as joey word — “joey + word”

Definitions

  1. A word that is contained in a kangaroo word.

    • Like a kangaroo novice, each joey word must take at least one hop through the letters of the mother word.
    • […] the joey word has to have its letters in order within the parent kangaroo word […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for joey word. 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