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sideburn

noun

Etymology

From side + burn.

  1. derived from *bʰrenw-✻
  2. derived from *brinnaną✻
  3. borrowed from brinna
  4. inherited from burne
  5. compounded as sideburn — “side + burn”

Definitions

  1. singular of sideburns

    • His left sideburn was longer than the other one.
    • “I don't have any money,” he said as she ran a hand down his sideburn through his beard.

  2. The unwanted rapid burning down one side of a cigarette that has been ineptly rolled.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for sideburn. 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