contentionaladj.
/kənˈtɛnʃənəl/ a. Of the nature or character of contention.
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1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 June 4/3 The contentional meeting of last night.
b. quasi-n.
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1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 103/1 The Iliad itself has nothing in the contentional so interesting.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.1846- to mose in the chine
- to motormouth one's way
- to mould cockelty bread
- to mount a loom
- to mount a pitch
- to mount guard
- to mount on a dead horse
- to mount one's pitch
- to mount the guard
- to mount the high horse
- to mount the pitch
- to mount the trenches
- to mount the white feather
- to mount to a pitch
- to mount to etc pitch
- to mount to one's pitch
- to mount to the pitch
- to moup and mell
- to mourn in mood
- to mourn of the chine
- to pull stripes
- to pull take a rabbit out of a hat
- to pull the chestnuts out of the fire
- to pull the devil by the tail
- to pull the feathers off