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undergroomed en · ADJ

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Etymology

From under- + groomed.

Meanings

1. Inadequately groomed.
   • […]an idle extravagance which was mistaken for elegant luxury — tumble-down old hackney-coaches, such as had not been seen north of the Potomac for half a century, harness never cleaned, undergroomed horses[…] 1954, Sir William Howard Russell, Fletcher Pratt, My Civil War diary, page 20:
   • I could barely walk, had lost almost forty pounds, and was undernourished and undergroomed. 2012, Paul V. Stutzman, Hiking Through, page 162:

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