inchmeal

副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time). idiomatic,not-comparable
    — All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!

词形变化

inch-meal alternative

词源

From inch + -meal.
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