lawnmow

English

Etymology

Back-formation from lawnmower or lawnmowing.

Verb

lawnmow (third-person singular simple present lawnmows, present participle lawnmowing, simple past lawnmowed, past participle lawnmowed or lawnmown)

1. (rare, intransitive) To mow a lawn.
   • 1940-56, Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956‎^[1], published 2017:

     All last week I lawnmowed, pianoed, tennised, read a little of “What Makes The Wheels Go Round”

2. (rare, transitive) To cut with a lawnmower.
   • 1910, “The Rathbunville Union Cemetery Assocation vs. George W. Betwon”, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division-Fourth Judicial Department‎^[2]:

     It has been kept lawnmowed ever since.

   • 1937, Connecticut. Board of Finance and Control, “Parts 1-2”, in The Budget Report of the State Board of Finance and Control to the General Assembly, Session of 1929-1937‎^[3], volume 4, published 1942:

     Beginning on June 10, the entire field was mowed eight times in 1937, but the lawnmowed clippings were removed and weighed on only two dates

   • 1945, Journal of the American Society of Agronomy‎^[4], volume 37, page 263:

     In two experiments in which the forage was lawnmowed, and in two others mowed three or four times per year

   • 1997, Eric Sansoni, “Star Wars from MATTEL?!?!?!”, in rec.toys.action-figures‎^[5], retrieved 2018-09-05:

     This is the kind of logic used in this industry that makes me want to lawnmow various executives' pet cats.

   • 2009, Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying‎^[6]:

     He was slowly lawnmowing his way into something we had begun to call a business

   • 2014, J.L. Hammer, Nothing but Trouble‎^[7]:

     Something had hacked, chewed, or lawn-mowed what was left of the television cord.