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pasteboardy

adj

Etymology

From pasteboard + -y.

  1. derived from *bʰers-✻ — “tip, top”
  2. inherited from *burdą✻ — “board, plank; edge; table”
  3. inherited from *bord✻
  4. inherited from bord
  5. inherited from boord
  6. compounded as pasteboard — “paste + board”
  7. suffixed as pasteboardy — “pasteboard + y”

Definitions

  1. Resembling pasteboard.

  2. Stiffly formal

    Stiffly formal; starchy; prim and proper.

The neighborhood

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