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English
Etymology
From stroke + -able.
Adjective
strokable (comparative more strokable, superlative most strokable)
- Suitable for stroking.
1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:Even the beasts wore rich chains about their necks. Yet nobody’s eyes were on them or the children. The living and strokable gold of Aslan’s mane outshone them all.
1999, David Foster Wallace, “Adult World (I)”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Little, Brown & Co., page 65:She was relieved that she had no worries about being less attractive or sexual than the actresses in the X-rated videotape: these women had gross measurements and obvious implants (as well as their own share of slight asymmetries, she noted), as well as dyed, bleached, and badly damaged hair that didn’t look touchable or strokable at all.
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