chalcenterous
chalcenterous adjective: having bowels of brass; tough.
Adjective
chalcenterous (comparative more chalcenterous, superlative most chalcenterous)
- Having bowels of brass; tough.
- Even when facing terrible danger, she was always stolidly chalcenterous.
- The ghost of Mr. Woodhouse himself may stare and gasp at being told that this awful preparation, this culinary corpse-reviver, apparently suited only to chalcenterous persons or those at the point of death, is a very simple mutton broth with sippets in it.1889 November 9, The Saturday Review, London, page 538, column 1
Examples of chalcenterous in a sentence
- [He] did not scruple to tire less chalcenterous workers.1948, R.W. Chapman, Lexicography. James Bryce Memorial Lecture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 15:
- Since the latter’s edition is intended ‘for general school and university use’, it may look as if the youth of 1961 should be viewed as considerably less chalcenterous than their predecessors of 1685.2012, Stephen Harrison and Christopher Stray, editors, Expurgating the Classics: Editing Out in Greek and Latin, London: Bloomsbury...
Forms of chalcenterous
| comparative | more chalcenterous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most chalcenterous |
Origin of chalcenterous
From chalc(o)- + Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestines, innards”) + -ous.
Questions about chalcenterous
- What does chalcenterous mean?
- Chalcenterous means having bowels of brass; tough.
- How do you use chalcenterous in a sentence?
- [He] did not scruple to tire less chalcenterous workers.
- What part of speech is chalcenterous?
- Chalcenterous is an adjective.
Words near chalcenterous in the dictionary
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