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bean-soupery

bean-soupery noun: a half-truth.

Noun

bean-soupery (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A half-truth.
    • Here someone makes a livelihood by gifts of bamboos, or by gifts of leaves, or by gifts of flowers, fruits, bathing powder, and tooth sticks, or by flattery, or by bean-soupery, or by fondling, or by going on errands on foot, or by one or other of the sorts of wrong livelihood condemned by the...2010, Buddhaghosa, “Description of Virtue”, in The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga), page 19

Origin of bean-soupery

bean + soup + -ery, in reference to some of the beans in a soup not getting fully cooked.

Questions about bean-soupery

What does bean-soupery mean?
Bean-soupery means a half-truth.
What part of speech is bean-soupery?
Bean-soupery is a noun.

Words near bean-soupery in the dictionary

  1. bean-shaped plasma
  2. bean-shaped plasmas
  3. bean-shooter
  4. bean-shooters
  5. bean-shot copper
  6. bean-soupery
  7. bean-stalk
  8. bean-stalks
  9. bean-stick
  10. bean-sticks
  11. bean-straw

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