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Flawed
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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noun
1.
a feature that mars the perfection of something; defect; fault: beauty without flaw; the flaws in our plan.
2.
a defect impairing legal soundness or validity.
verb (used with object)
4.
to produce a flaw in.
verb (used without object)
5.
to contract a flaw; become cracked or defective.
Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English flaw(e), flage, perhaps < Old Norse flaga sliver, flake
1275–1325; Middle English flaw(e), flage, perhaps < Old Norse flaga sliver, flake
Related forms
flaw·less, adjective
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flaw
early 14c., "snowflake, spark of fire," from O.N. flaga "stone slab, flake" (see flagstone); sense of "defect, fault" first recorded 1580s, first of character, later (c.1600) of material things; probably via notion of a "fragment" broken off. Related: Flawed (early 15c.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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