See Also: Figpecker(medicine)

unthinkable (iou) and Figpecker (medicine)


unthinkable (iou)



unthinkable adjective & noun. LME.
[from UN-1 + THINK verb2 + -ABLE.]
A. adjective. Unable to be imagined or grasped by the mind; colloq. highly unlikely or undesirable. LME.
Westminster Gazette Cool glades of unthinkable Beauty. C. Tomalin Behaviour which would have been unthinkable a generation earlier.
b. absol. as noun. That which is unthinkable; an unthinkable thing. L19.
B. Duffy Wittgenstein did the unthinkable when he declined the emperor's offer to ennoble the Wittgenstein family.
unthinka'bility noun M19.
unthinkableness noun E20.
unthinkably adverb E16.

Figpecker (medicine)


figpecker
<zoology> The European Garden warbler (Sylvia, or Currica, hortensis).

Synonym: beccafico and greater pettychaps.

Source: Websters Dictionary