sinkward

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adverb

Towards a sink.

OriginProto-Germanic *wardaz ← Proto-Indo-European *wert- ← English sink →
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Meanings

adverbsinkward (not comparable)
  1. not comparableTowards a sink.

    Remove with warm water and don’t freak when the little black “tubes” fall sinkward.

    2009 February 22, S.S. Fair, “Curl, Interrupted”, in New York Times
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    He takes the fruit and a knife sinkward, and as the women fashion plans he slices melon and devours the red fibers, spitting seeds into the hollow tub.

    1986, Betty Rollin, Last Wish

Origin

  1. Englishsink
  2. Proto-Indo-European*wert-
  3. Proto-Germanic*wardaz
  4. Englishsinkward

From sink + -ward.

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