Moth-ball
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Moth-ball is a noun meaning Alternative form of mothball.
Meaning
Alternative form of mothball.
Example Sentences
Me and Solly, as I now called him, prepared to shake off our moth-balls and wing our way against the arc-lights of the joyous and tuneful East.
The church interior was as comfortable as Sunday-morning toast and marmalade— […] and a general polite creaking of ladies' best strays and gentlemen's stiff shirt-bosoms, and an odor of the best cologne and moth-balls.
Word Forms
- moth-balls
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include witchball, soot-ball, mealbug, bott, cottonworm, slime ball.
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