unsplay en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + splay.
Meanings
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(especially, of fingers, uncommon) To bring together compactly.
... fingers splaying and unsplaying over the brakes. “I can't.” I wouldn't. I'd never run against Jill again unless I actually wanted to win, and that included their idea of casually running with her. “I have to be somewhere.” Jill[…]
2018 July 11, Colleen L. Donnelly, Out of Splinters and Ashes, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN:... fingers themselves — not splayed and unsplayed them, but pulsed them, I guess I'd say; pulsed them leisurely — leisurelily? I give up. No I don't. Fred Mackall pulsed his spread-fingered, fingertip-touching hands leisurely[…]
2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 148:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unsplayed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unsplayed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| unsplays | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| unsplaying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |