sievish

adj
/ˈsɪvɪʃ/

Etymology

Formed as sieve + -ish. Compare memory like a sieve.

  1. derived from *seyp-
  2. inherited from *sibi
  3. inherited from sife
  4. inherited from sive
  5. suffixed as sievish — “sieve + ish

Definitions

  1. Like a sieve

    Like a sieve: unretentive.

    • Perhaps I have a frighteningly sievish memory, but I’ll be damned if I can flip a folded chart back and forth and remember exactly what was on the other side.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sievish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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