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Shoehorn   /ʃˈuhˌɔrn/   Listen
Shoehorn

verb
1.
Fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited.





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"Shoehorn" Quotes from Famous Books



... always were, and will be; but, Betsy, I have this wery momink fixed him up with a shoehorn in his mouth, as was lying round providential, and the strings of my bonnet, and the last word as he will say this blessed night was some lunacy about "denouncing the clogeure," as won't ...
— Old Friends - Essays in Epistolary Parody • Andrew Lang


Words linked to "Shoehorn" :   device, accommodate, adapt


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