peltable
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]peltable (comparative more peltable, superlative most peltable)
- Deserving of being pelted.
- 1915, H. G. Wells, The Research Magnificent:
- Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter.
- 2010, Fred Inglis, A Short History of Celebrity, page 286:
- What I mean is that there are structures in all this tumult, as there are in all human dealings. Certain classes of celebrity count as peltable; the international rich are not, and they, as I have so frequently said in these pages, are the worst menace […]
- Able to be thrown or hurled.
- 1909, The Theatre, volume 10, page 78:
- […] the crowd throngs there, eager to substitute cat-calls and taunts for applause, and for roses and violets they exchange cabbages and other harsh and peltable vegetables […]