strangleable
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editstrangleable (comparative more strangleable, superlative most strangleable)
- Capable or deserving of being strangled.
- October 19 1753, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774
- I am glad that the capital strangler should , in his turn , be strangleable , and now and then strangled ; for I know of no brute so fierce , nor criminal so guilty , as the creature called a Sovereign
- October 19 1753, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774
References
edit“strangleable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.