wedgelike

English

Alternative forms

• wedge-like

Etymology

wedge +‎ -like

Adjective

wedgelike (comparative more wedgelike, superlative most wedgelike)

1. Shaped like a wedge.

   Synonyms: cuneate, cuneiform, wedge-shaped, wedgy

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     He looks, he feels, and satisfies himself: the driving forward with fury, its prodigious stiffness, thus impacted, wedgelike, breaks the union of those parts, and gain'd him just the insertion of the tip of it, lip-deep; which being sensible of, he improved his advantage, and following well his stroke, in a straight line, forcibly deepens his penetration

Translations

shaped like a wedge — see also cuneiform

• Belarusian: клінападо́бны (klinapadóbny)
• Bulgarian: клинообразен (klinoobrazen)
• Catalan: cuneïforme (ca) m
• Finnish: kiilamainen (fi)
• German: keilförmig (de)
• Greek: σφηνοειδής (el) m or f (sfinoeidís)
• Macedonian: клинест m (klinest)
• Russian: клинови́дный (ru) (klinovídnyj), клинообра́зный (ru) (klinoobráznyj)
• Ukrainian: клиноподі́бний (klynopodíbnyj)