punchable
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]punchable (comparative more punchable, superlative most punchable)
- Suitable for being punched or perforated.
- a material that is punchable at low temperatures
- (colloquial) Deserving to be punched or struck, or evoking the desire to do so.
- Synonym: punchworthy
- He has an eminently punchable face!
- 2016 February 10, Jessica Goldstein, “We Asked Scientists: Just How Punchable is Martin Shkreli’s Face?”, in Center for Law, Brain & Behavior[1]:
- “An emotion is something that you construct in your own brain,” Barrett said, as is perception. Shkreli’s face scans as punchable to so many because of this tendency to “experience the emotion to be a property of the thing in the world and not your own experience.”