toothcombing
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]toothcombing (comparative more toothcombing, superlative most toothcombing)
- Of an analysis, a search, etc.: very thorough; detailed.
- 2010, Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass, Arrow, published 2011, page 30:
- Gladstone's toothcombing analysis of what the poems said and—sometimes even more importantly—what they did not say thus led him to remarkable discoveries about the cultural world of the ancient Greeks.
Verb
[edit]toothcombing
- present participle and gerund of toothcomb
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]toothcombing (plural toothcombings)