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mimelike

adj

Etymology

From mime + -like.

  1. borrowed from mime — “mimic actor”
  2. derived from μῖμος — “imitator, actor”
  3. derived from mimus
  4. inherited from mīma — “a buffoon, jester, mime”
  5. inherited from *mime✻
  6. suffixed as mimelike — “mime + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of the art of mime.

    • Then ponderously, with its whole body rocking from side to side, it lifted one flipper into the air in an exaggerated mimelike movement.

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