wordmeal en · ADV
Pronunciation
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- /ˈwɜːdmiːl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈwɜɹdˌmil/ (General-American)
Etymology
From word + -meal (suffix denoting an amount, fixed number, or measure at a time).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) One word at a time; word by word.
Had I time, you space, and either of us patience, I could take this passage wordmeal, and dispute every word of it.
1921 June 3 (date written), C[harles] K[enneth] Scott Moncrieff, “Correspondence: John Davidson”, in J[ohn] C[ollings] Squire, editor, The London Mercury, volume IV, number 21, [London]: [Field Press], published July 1921, →OCLC, page 299:
Translations (2)
fi sana kerrallaan (one word at a time) · fi sanasta sanaan (one word at a time)