单词 | punchable |
释义 | punchableadj.ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [adjective] > qualifying for punch-mark punchable1696 1696 London Gaz. No. 3236/4 They will..take in Payment Old Hammer'd Money that is Punchable. 1696 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 60 An information against some goldsmiths in Lumbard street for offering clipt money not punchable since 4th of May. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Punchable, old passable Money. 2. Capable of being punched; such as invites a punch. ΚΠ 1900 N.Y. Telegr. in Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 13 Apr. 7/1 This latest product of the ever-inventive Hoosier boy's brain is not punchable... It is simply a big 7x4 foot plate glass mirror..before which he performs fifteen minutes every day. 1923 F. Swinnerton Young Felix xiii. 276 Jacob looked..aside at the inscrutable—the, to Jacob at this moment, punchable—face of Felix. 1957 Biometrics 13 406 Data have to be surveyed on punchable blanks, their documentation has to be made on punch cards. 2006 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 4 Mar. 44 There's just something so punchable about the guy, it must be that chin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1696 |
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