inchmeal

/ˈɪnt͡ʃ.miːl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!"
"Those who are not thus slippery in the tail, are light of finger; and of these the most pernicious are those who beggar you inchmeal."
"I am a sanguinary murderer of time, and would kill him inchmeal just now."
"He could be as patient as Death, that inchmeal stalker of his prey; he could be as ruthless as the sea, and incredibly generous upon occasion."

From inch + -meal.

inch-meal (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce inchmeal?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɪnt͡ʃ.miːl/.

What does inchmeal mean?

Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time).

Where does inchmeal come from?

From inch + -meal.

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