Definitions
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- adjective Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime.
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- adjective Beset with
snares . - adjective
Ensnared , as withbirdlime .
Etymologies
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lime-twig + -ed
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Examples
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In verse, however irregular, her flight is lime-twigged, and she soon takes to hopping on the ground.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
ruzuzu commented on the word lime-twigged
"Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime."
--GNU Webster's 1913
November 19, 2012
sionnach commented on the word lime-twigged
Just ask Papageno!
November 20, 2012
sionnach commented on the word lime-twigged
And if you ask me anyone who tweets (God, how I hate being forced to use vile word) "Lured to lurid hues, lucid discontinuities churn out strips of woody putty coalesced to upheavals of eggnog organza: lime-twigged snowclones" is either trying too hard, or a reasonably clever machine.
November 20, 2012
bilby commented on the word lime-twigged
Indeed, resembles one of my experiments in force feeding Jabberwocky and furniture catalogues to a computer-generated poetry thingum called Babble.
November 21, 2012
sionnach commented on the word lime-twigged
I never did get my copy of that poetry rag where my delightful opus "Marmalade Cat Humiliation" is alleged to have appeared.
What do you have to say about that, leather-ears? Did even a pang of regret enter your wizened marsupial soul as you jetted past Paris, on the way to a more cachet-laden dinner engagement with rolig, huh?
Not that I am bitter. No, not me.
November 21, 2012
bilby commented on the word lime-twigged
I had copies sitting on my desk for a year waiting for an address to send them to. Conceivably they are in The Archive now and, frankly, nothing ever escapes from The Archive.
*pause for ominous music*
But I know your track record with hardworking chocolate-defecating animals, exploited for all the chiclets they were worth and then abandoned, and wonder if my tender zines would not have met a similar fate.
rolig says hello :-)
November 21, 2012