training wheels

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English

WOTD – 12 August 2022

Etymology

From training wheel +‎ -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns).

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈtɹeɪnɪŋ wiːlz/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈtreɪnɪŋ ˌ(h)wilz/
  • Hyphenation: train‧ing wheels

Noun

Template:en-plural noun

  1. (figuratively) Anything designed to make something easier for a novice.
    • 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club‎[1], archived from the original on 4 March 2021:
      Yet as with Booksmart, the summer's earlier riff on that Apatovian classic, there are times when Good Boys feels a little too nice to actually be uproarious. In more ways than one, it's the training wheels for a better comedy—a slightly edgier and funnier one.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

training wheels

  1. plural of training wheel

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