Meanings
undertime1
verbundertime (third-person singular simple present undertimes, present participle undertiming, simple past and past participle undertimed)
present singular third person undertimes · participle present undertiming · participle past undertimed · past undertimed · alternative under-time
- transitiveTo measure wrongly, so that it seems to take less time than actually required.
- transitiveartsTo underexpose.
undertime2
nounundertime (uncountable)
alternative under-time
- informaluncountableThe time spent at a workplace doing non-work activities.
undertime3
noun
alternative under-time
- obsoleteThe later part of the day; afternoon; undertide.
He, comming home at undertime, there found / The fayrest creature, that he euer saw, / Sitting beside his mother on the ground; / The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13
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Rhymes with undertime
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