wedgelike

English

Alternative forms

• wedge-like

Etymology

wedge +‎ -like

Adjective

wedgelike (comparative more wedgelike, superlative most wedgelike)

1. Shaped like a wedge.
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     He looks, he feels, and satisfies himself: the driving forward with fury, its prodigious stiffness, thus impacted, wedgelike, breaks the union of those parts, and gain'd him just the insertion of the tip of it, lip-deep; which being sensible of, he improved his advantage, and following well his stroke, in a straight line, forcibly deepens his penetration

Synonyms

• cuneiform
• wedgy

Translations

shaped like a wedge

• Catalan: cuneïforme m
• Finnish: kiilamainen
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• Greek: σφηνοειδής (el) m or f (sfinoeidís)
• Macedonian: клинест m (klinest)