Meanings
- not comparableNot compulsive.
So if you dry the squid compulsively, at least by my noncompulsive standards, and you cook it in small batches, you solve the problem.
2009 August 5, Mark Bittman, “Solving Squid Spatter (and No, Not the Ink)”, in New York Times
Origin
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