English edit

Etymology edit

Back-formation from lawnmower or lawnmowing.

Verb edit

lawnmow (third-person singular simple present lawnmows, present participle lawnmowing, simple past lawnmowed, past participle lawnmowed or lawnmown)

  1. (rare, intransitive) To mow a lawn.
    • 1940-56, Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956[1], published 2017:
      All last week I lawnmowed, pianoed, tennised, read a little of “What Makes The Wheels Go Round”
  2. (rare, transitive) To cut with a lawnmower.
    • 1910, “The Rathbunville Union Cemetery Assocation vs. George W. Betwon”, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division-Fourth Judicial Department[2]:
      It has been kept lawnmowed ever since.
    • 1937, Connecticut. Board of Finance and Control, “Parts 1-2”, in The Budget Report of the State Board of Finance and Control to the General Assembly, Session of 1929-1937[3], volume 4, published 1942:
      Beginning on June 10, the entire field was mowed eight times in 1937, but the lawnmowed clippings were removed and weighed on only two dates
    • 1945, Journal of the American Society of Agronomy[4], volume 37, page 263:
      In two experiments in which the forage was lawnmowed, and in two others mowed three or four times per year
    • 1997, Eric Sansoni, “Star Wars from MATTEL?!?!?!”, in rec.toys.action-figures[5], retrieved 2018-09-05:
      This is the kind of logic used in this industry that makes me want to lawnmow various executives' pet cats.
    • 2009, Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying[6]:
      He was slowly lawnmowing his way into something we had begun to call a business
    • 2014, J.L. Hammer, Nothing but Trouble[7]:
      Something had hacked, chewed, or lawn-mowed what was left of the television cord.