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threadbareness

noun

Etymology

From threadbare + -ness.

  1. inherited from *bʰosós✻ — “bare; barefoot”
  2. inherited from *bazaz✻ — “naked, bare”
  3. inherited from bær — “naked, bare; unconcealed”
  4. inherited from *terh₁-✻ — “to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn, twist”
  5. inherited from *þrēduz✻ — “thread; twisted fibre”
  6. inherited from þrǣd — “thread”
  7. inherited from thred-bar
  8. suffixed as threadbareness — “threadbare + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or condition of being threadbare.

The neighborhood

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