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octopusish

adj

Etymology

From octopus + -ish.

  1. derived from ὀκτώπους
  2. borrowed from octōpūs
  3. formed as octopusish — “octopus + -ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling an octopus

    Resembling an octopus; octopuslike.

    • A little beer mixed with soggy tobacco or pot oozes out of one can near Ken's bare, hairy feet. He just sits there, hunched over, while air explodes in-out his mouth, and beer spreads in an octopusish pattern.
    • I always wished they would give a clear view of the Kaled mutation inside the Dalek Travel machine, they showed one hanging out of a demolished Dalek in The 5 Doctors episode, it was an octopusish thing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for octopusish. 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