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swayback

noun

Etymology

From sway + back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as swayback — “sway + back”

Definitions

  1. An excessive sagging of the spine of a quadruped animal, especially a horse.

  2. An animal with such excessive sagging.

The neighborhood

Derived

swaybacked

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA