anidiomatical
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
an- + idiomatical
Adjective[edit]
anidiomatical (comparative more anidiomatical, superlative most anidiomatical)
- (archaic) Not idiomatic.
- 1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- Because you would not say two times; it is anidiomatical. JOHNSON: Anidiomatical! TOOKE: We want the word; take it from me. It is not so, when or three comes between. JOHNSON: I should rather say twice or thrice.
References[edit]
“anidiomatical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.