minnowed
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]minnowed (comparative more minnowed, superlative most minnowed)
- (literary, rare) Containing or full of minnows.
- 1976, Vera Burden, History, People, and Places in the Lake District, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire: Spurbooks Limited, →ISBN, page 90:
- Looking out from within the hillside, the entrance frames the buttress of Nab Scar, and on the floor a minnowed pool draws reflections from the sunlit boulders outside.
Verb
[edit]minnowed
- simple past and past participle of minnow
References
[edit]- “minnowed, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.