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moonflask

noun
/ˈmuːnflæsk/

Etymology

From moon + flask.

  1. borrowed from flasque
  2. borrowed from fiasco
  3. derived from *pleḱ-✻
  4. derived from *ploḱ-skō✻
  5. derived from *flaskǭ✻
  6. derived from *flaskā✻
  7. derived from flascō
  8. inherited from flasce
  9. inherited from flask
  10. compounded as moonflask — “moon + flask”

Definitions

  1. A discoid drinking vessel.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for moonflask. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA