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lawnmow en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from lawnmower or lawnmowing.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, rare) To mow a lawn.
   • All last week I lawnmowed, pianoed, tennised, read a little of “What Makes The Wheels Go Round” 1940-56, Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956, published 2017:
2. (rare, transitive) To cut with a lawnmower.
   • It has been kept lawnmowed ever since. 1910, “The Rathbunville Union Cemetery Assocation vs. George W. Betwon”, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division-Fourth Judicial Department:
   • He was slowly lawnmowing his way into something we had begun to call a business 2009, Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying:
   • Beginning on June 10, the entire field was mowed eight times in 1937, but the lawnmowed clippings were removed and weighed on only two dates 1937, Connecticut. Board of Finance and Control, “Parts 1-2”, in The Budget Report of the State Board of Finance and Control to the General Assembly, Session of 1929-1937, volume 4, published 1942:
   • In two experiments in which the forage was lawnmowed, and in two others mowed three or four times per year 1945, Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, volume 37, page 263:
   • This is the kind of logic used in this industry that makes me want to lawnmow various executives' pet cats. 1997, Eric Sansoni, “Star Wars from MATTEL?!?!?!”, in rec.toys.action-figures, retrieved 05 Sep 2018:
   • Something had hacked, chewed, or lawn-mowed what was left of the television cord. 2014, J.L. Hammer, Nothing but Trouble:

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