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plugworthy en · ADJ

Etymology

From plug (“to blatantly mention or advertise”) + -worthy.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:show business, rare) Worthy of being plugged or advertised.
    • In pursuit of plugworthy composers, then, the Festival is sure sooner or later to walk off the end of the pier. 1967, The Spectator, volume 219, page 249:
    • Because of this isolation, and the lack of visitor 'attractions' deemed plug-worthy, nobody goes to Gabalfa unless they live there, work there, or are writing a painstaking Cardiff history. 2014, Dic Mortimer, Cardiff:

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more plugworthy Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most plugworthy Degree=Sup lexicographic
plug-worthy alternative lexicographic