Tamsinate
tamsinates, tamsinating, tamsination, past tamsinated
1. verb. subject informal prose to exacting scrutiny and high-handed correction. An act of grammatical pedantry in which amendments are delivered in the manner of a condescending school ma'am, usually resulting in the badgitation of the beneficiary.
2. verb. obsessively clean and tidy an area until it gleams like Mr Muscle's kitchen.
1. verb. subject informal prose to exacting scrutiny and high-handed correction. An act of grammatical pedantry in which amendments are delivered in the manner of a condescending school ma'am, usually resulting in the badgitation of the beneficiary.
2. verb. obsessively clean and tidy an area until it gleams like Mr Muscle's kitchen.
'Madam, I fear I shall be accused of tamsination, but your shopping list contains a most egregious dangling modifier.'
Lady Sneerwell in Richard Brinsley Sheridan, School for Scandal (1777)
'The room was clean. Too clean. The tip-off said there was a Jane on the floor with a slug in her head. Now the joint looked tamsinated.'
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953)
Lady Sneerwell in Richard Brinsley Sheridan, School for Scandal (1777)
'The room was clean. Too clean. The tip-off said there was a Jane on the floor with a slug in her head. Now the joint looked tamsinated.'
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953)
Tamsinate by badgerboyjon October 26, 2011
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