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mathy

adj

Etymology

From math + -y.

  1. derived from *h₂meh₁-✻ — “to mow”
  2. inherited from *mēþą✻ — “a mowing”
  3. inherited from mǣþ — “a mowing, that which is mown, cutting of grass”
  4. inherited from math
  5. formed as mathy — “math + -y”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of mathsy (“of or relating to mathematics”).

    • I showed a draft of this book to one of my nieces and she declared it “too mathy.”
    • She first combined her math-y and woolly mind-sets as a Ph.D. student, after admiring a friend’s crocheted interpretation of the hyperbolic plane (curly kale is a vegetable example) and wondering how to do it differently.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mathy. 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