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English
Etymology
From wedge + -like.
Adjective
wedgelike (comparative more wedgelike, superlative most wedgelike)
- Shaped like a wedge.
- Synonyms: cuneate, cuneiform, wedge-shaped, wedgy
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: for G. Fenton , →OCLC:He looks, he feels, and satisfies himself: the driving forward with fury, its prodigious stiffness, thus impacted, wedgelike, breaks the union of those parts, and gain'd him just the insertion of the tip of it, lip-deep; which being sensible of, he improved his advantage, and following well his stroke, in a straight line, forcibly deepens his penetration
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