Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Infested by moths.
- adjective Moth-eaten.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing moths; eaten by moths.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Infested with moths; moth-eaten.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
infested withmoths - adjective
moth-eaten
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective infested with moths
- adjective worn or eaten away by (or as if by) moths
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Examples
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Instead I would pull the trunk with the crushed velvet lining out of the wardrobe, the same wardrobe with my aunt's mothy fur coat, and her double bass.
dublin on a wet day James Claffey 2011
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Under a pile of mothy tea-cosies I found a pair of secateurs returned from the ironmongers with a brown label attached, dated 1956 and inscribed "Not Worth Repair".
Hancox: All under one roof Charlotte Moore 2010
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Some magnificent work was done by James Clappison (Con) pinning the fluttering mothy DM on some misrepresentation of the solidity of red lines soi disant.
How Very Dare You ?! Newmania 2007
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Write to James T. Areddy at james. areddy@wsj.com and T.mothy Aeppel at timothy. aeppel@wsj.com
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T.m Foley for Barron's T. T.mothy Ryan, the organization's president and CEO, says the aggregator bank would provide price discovery to a market that currently has none.
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Some magnificent work was done by James Clappison (Con) pinning the fluttering mothy DM on some misrepresentation of the solidity of red lines soi disant.
Archive 2007-10-14 Newmania 2007
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If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm
Afterwards Kiki 2008
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If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm
Archive 2008-11-01 Kiki 2008
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There's plenty to go at - huge rats, prodigious magpies and pestilent squirrels outdoors, with the occasional mousey or mothy snack indoors.
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There's plenty to go at - huge rats, prodigious magpies and pestilent squirrels outdoors, with the occasional mousey or mothy snack indoors.
Archive 2007-09-02 2007
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