chimneylike

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adjective

Resembling a chimney, especially in shape

OriginProto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English chimney →
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Meanings

adjectivechimneylike (comparative more chimneylike, superlative most chimneylike)

comparative more chimneylike · superlative most chimneylike

  1. Resembling a chimney, especially in shape

    “Some are tall and chimneylike, heroic cones,[…],” he said.

    2009 January 28, Robin Pogrebin, “MoMA Award Goes to Architecture for an Economic Hangover”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Englishchimney
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. Englishchimneylike

From chimney + -like.

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Chicago

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