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midswallow

noun

Etymology

From mid- + swallow.

  1. inherited from *swelgaz✻
  2. inherited from *swelg✻
  3. inherited from swelh
  4. inherited from swolow
  5. derived from *swelk-✻ — “to gulp”
  6. inherited from *swelganą✻ — “to swallow, revel, devour”
  7. inherited from *swelgan✻
  8. inherited from swelgan
  9. inherited from swolwen
  10. prefixed as midswallow — “mid + swallow”

Definitions

  1. A point in time when someone is swallowing.

    • But then Deena blurted out something that stopped me in midswallow.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for midswallow. 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