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absits

absits is the plural of absit.

Meaning of absit

Noun (1)

absit (plural absits)

  1. (UK) Formal permission to be away from a college for the greater part of the day or more.
    • In the evening, after some difficulty, he persuaded his tutor to give him an absit to sleep at Huntingdon that night, and drove over there after dinner in a fly with Egerton, Castleton, and Grey.1868, George Charles L. Tottenham, Charlie Villars at Cambridge, page 198

Noun (2)

absit (plural absits)

  1. A portion of fermenting dough diluted to a paste with water and then cooked.
    • A portion of the fermented paste may be mixed with three parts of water and boiled, resulting in an absit.1987, Larry R. Beuchat, Food and Beverage Mycology, →ISBN, page 296

Questions about absits

What is absits the plural of?
Absits is the plural of absit.

Words near absits in the dictionary

  1. absit omen
  2. absite
  3. absitively
  4. absitively posilutely
  5. absitively posolutely
  6. absits
  7. abso-bloody-lutely
  8. abso-flippin'-lutely
  9. abso-flippin-lutely
  10. abso-flipping-lutely
  11. abso-freakin'-lutely

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