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wordmeal

adv
/ˈwɜːdmiːl/UK/ˈwɜɹdˌmil/US

Etymology

From word + -meal (suffix denoting an amount, fixed number, or measure at a time).

  1. inherited from *werdʰh₁om✻ — “word”
  2. inherited from *wurdą✻ — “word”
  3. inherited from *word✻
  4. inherited from word
  5. inherited from word
  6. formed as wordmeal — “word + -meal”

Definitions

  1. One word at a time

    One word at a time; word by word.

    • Had I time, you space, and either of us patience, I could take this passage wordmeal, and dispute every word of it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wordmeal. 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