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English
Etymology
From whip + stitch.
Noun
whipstitch (plural whipstitches)
- A stitch that passes diagonally over an edge.
- (derogatory, archaic) A tailor.
- Anything hastily put or stitched together; a hasty composition.
- c. 1678, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
- Where sold he bargains, "whip-stitch, kiss my arse", / Promised a play and dwindled to a farce?
- (colloquial) A little bit, especially a small interval of time; an instant.
- (agriculture) Half-ploughing or raftering.
Verb
whipstitch (third-person singular simple present whipstitches, present participle whipstitching, simple past and past participle whipstitched)
- To sew using such a stitch.
- (agriculture) To half-plough or rafter.