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switchbacky

adj

Etymology

From switchback + -y.

  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 switchback — “switch + back”
  7. formed as switchbacky — “switchback + -y”

Definitions

  1. In the nature of a switchback.

    • Four miles of switchbacky road, and then a restriction of 40 m.p.h. between East Ham and Barking followed.

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