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)