halfwise

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"You don't need to be overly wise. / One should only be halfwise. / The one with just enough wits / leads the best of lives."
"Big animal. Wouldn't all fit in the back, so we sawed it halfwise. Left the front for the bears. The hindquarters we took along."

half + wise

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