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pattable

adj

Etymology

From pat + -able.

  1. derived from *blod-✻
  2. derived from *plat-✻ — “to strike, beat”
  3. derived from *platt✻ — “a smack, slap, blow”
  4. inherited from plætt — “a sounding blow, a smack”
  5. inherited from pat — “a blow, stroke”
  6. suffixed as pattable — “pat + able”

Definitions

  1. Able to be patted

    Able to be patted; suitable for patting.

    • Peache, as played by Chris Makepeace, offers the audience little magnetism. Aside from his little boy grins and puppy-dog-pattable cuteness, he does little to convey his inner struggles and emotions.
    • The child was evidently deciding that a "bow-wow" had four legs and a tail and was small (pattable?).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pattable. 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