inchmeal
English
Alternative forms
- inch-meal
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪntʃ.miːl/
Adverb
inchmeal (not comparable)
- gradually, little by little (an inch at a time)
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
Translations
little by little
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