penelopize
verbEtymology
From Penelope + -ize, from the account in Homer's Odyssey of Penelope, who stalled her many suitors while she wove a shroud which she unraveled nightly to prolong the process.
Definitions
To create a delay by undoing what has previously been done, sometimes possibly with the…
To create a delay by undoing what has previously been done, sometimes possibly with the intention of redoing it and repeating this cycle.
- However, there is nothing for it but to penelopize, pull to pieces, and stitch away again.
- Yiota would not allow me to begin to discuss Yiannaras's Commentary with her until I had finished reading it. I was tempted to penelopize, to go back to the beginning and start again in order to postpone the moment of discussion.
Alternative form of penelopize.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA