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octopusine en · ADJ

Etymology

From octopus + -ine.

Meanings

1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of an octopus.
   • Then his body seemed to turn into rubber; it was as if his joints forgot that they existed, and his limbs turned into octopusine tentacles. His legs went over his head, and round his neck. His arms went under his legs and up his back. 1996, Rohit Manchanda, editors, In the Light of the Black Sun, page 148:
   • Batu’s guitarist Chris Franck, after playing samba whilst studying for a degree in France, was tutored by two expatriate Brazilians, Pedro (guitar) and Beberto de Souza (octopusine percussion). 1995, Colin Larkin, editors, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, page 312:
   • The harbor was complicated enough for Craig Binky once to have called it “octopusine,” and Asbury might easily have bumbled into Jamaica Bay or tried to fight the tidal rush in the East River, were it not for the pilot he had taken on. 1983, Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale, page 335:

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Synonyms

octopusical