agrodespotic
now rare
adjective
Of, relating to, or characterized by the rule of a despotic bureaucracy in control of the water supply over a society of small-scale agricultural producers.
- Associated originally and chiefly with East Asian societies dependent on large-scale, state-controlled hydraulic works..
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988).
- knobkierie
- knob-like
- knobstick
- knock
- knockabout
- knock about (or around)
- knock-back
- knock-down
- knock-down-drag-out
- knocker
- knocker-up
- knock-for-knock agreement
- knocking copy
- knocking-off time
- knocking shop
- knock it off
- knock-kneed
- knock knees
- knock off
- knock on
- knock-on effect
- knock on wood
- knock (or blow) someone's socks off
- knock (or hit) someone for six
- knock (or take) the stuffing out of