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surliness

noun

Etymology

From surly + -ness.

  1. derived from senior — “older, elder”
  2. derived from sire — “master, sir, lord”
  3. inherited from sir
  4. suffixed as surly — “sir + ly”
  5. suffixed as surliness — “surly + ness”

Definitions

  1. The property of being surly.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for surliness. 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