aldermanic
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌɔːldə(ɹ)ˈmænɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]aldermanic (comparative more aldermanic, superlative most aldermanic)
- Of or pertaining to an alderman.
- 2010 September, Toby Weiss, "Identify and Revitalize Key Areas", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 86:
- I would help finance the aldermanic campaigns of people who […] .
- 2010 September, Toby Weiss, "Identify and Revitalize Key Areas", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 86:
- (Of size) plump, rotund, fleshy.
- 1917, Samuel G. Camp, The Fine Art of Fishing[1]:
- The male trout of this weight, however finely marked with various tints of blue, crimson, and gold, tends dangerously to aldermanic girth […] .
- 1947 October 25, “Nicknamed 'Marrow Jack'”, in The Adelaide Mail, page 1:
- In the first place it had been the means of reducing his still aldermanic figure by a stone in weight […] .
- (Of a sum) substantial, considerable, sizeable.
- 1860 December 14, “The Japanese bill growing smaller”, in The New York Times, page 4:
- The proposed reduction is a substantial one, cutting down the total of the bill from $105,000, the Aldermanic figure, to $90,000, which must be somewhere in the neighborhood of an honest amount.