tinderlike
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tinderlike (comparative more tinderlike, superlative most tinderlike)
- Resembling or characteristic of tinder.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- hasty and tinder-like upon too trivial motion