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with Anu GarglimpetPRONUNCIATION:
(LIM-pit)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Any of various low conical-shelled marine mollusks that adhere tightly
to rocks.
2. One that clings stubbornly.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English lempet, from Latin lampreda (lamprey).
USAGE:
"If your child becomes a limpet, the teacher will peel him off your leg."Kevin Harcombe; Learning to Let Go; The Guardian (London, UK); Sep 2 2008. See more usage examples of limpet in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
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