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kill-time

noun

Etymology

From kill + time.

  1. derived from *deh₂y-✻
  2. derived from *deh₂imō✻
  3. inherited from *tīmô✻
  4. inherited from *tīmō✻
  5. inherited from tīma — “time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”
  6. inherited from tyme
  7. compounded as kill-time — “kill + time”

Definitions

  1. Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.

    • For as to the devotees of the circulating libraries, I dare not compliment their pass-time, or rather kill-time, with the name of reading.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for kill-time. 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