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tinfoil

noun

Etymology

From tin + foil.

  1. derived from folia
  2. derived from fueille
  3. derived from fueille
  4. inherited from foyle
  5. compounded as tinfoil — “tin + foil”

Definitions

  1. A thin, pliable sheet of tin or an alloy of tin and lead, used as a protective wrapping.

  2. Aluminium foil.

  3. To cover in tinfoil.

The neighborhood

Derived

tinfoil hat, tinfoily

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tinfoil. 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