Word of the Day: PEBBLE-BEACHED


ETYMOLOGY
from pebble (n.) + beached (adj.)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1890 – see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
“…He had arrived at a crisis of impecuniosity compared to which the small circumstance of being pebble-beached and stony-broke might be described as comparative affluence….”

 From: A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant
Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinker’s Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology
– Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland

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