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slantindicular, a. (n.) and adv.|ˌslɑːntɪnˈdɪkjʊlə(r), -æ-|
Also slanting-, slantendicular, slantindiclar, -dickelar, slantendikular.
[f. slanting, after perpendicular. Orig. U.S. and chiefly colloq. or humorous.]
A. adj.
a. Slanting, sloping, oblique; neither perpendicular nor horizontal.
α1840J. T. J. Hewlett P. Priggins ii, I took particular care to slew the buttons at the knees well forward in a slanting-dicular direction. 1868Hurst Johnian Mag. Feb. 341 Put your arm quite straight at an angle of about 45° with your body, (that is in a ‘slantingdicular’ direction).
β1832Mem. of Nullifier iv. 37 This is sorter a slantindickelar road, stranger. 1835P. H. Nicklin Lett. Descr. Virginia Springs 30 [He] makes his bivouac among the trees..under a slantindicular shed. 1855Smedley H. Coverdale liv, Jumping off the ground all four feet at once in a slantindicular direction.
fig.c1863U.S. Newspaper in Bright Sp. (1868) II. 239 He walked uprightly before the world, but when he was not before the world his walk was slantindicular. 1872De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes 289 And he must not put himself [in the calendar] under the first saint with a slantendicular reference to the other.
b. As n., with the.
1843I. F. Romer Rhone, Darro, etc. II. 305 What the Doctor termed ‘the slantingdicular’ of our position obliged me to be secured in my place by a rope.
B. adv. = next.
1831Daily Louisville Public Advertiser 17 Oct. 2/3 He looked up at me slantindicler [sic], and I looked down on him slantindiclar. 1866Buckland Curios. Nat. Hist. Ser. iii. I. 73 They [ducks] open their web feet, come down, as the Yankees say, ‘slantindicular’. 1873C. H. Smith Bill Arp's Peace Papers xxx. 202 If we could have slid into it quietly and slantendikular, if slavery could have sorter tapered out and freedom sorter tapered in, everybody could have got used to it. |