Pneumasis
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pneumasis is a noun meaning A pocket of air, or, figuratively, something resembling a pocket of air.
Meaning
A pocket of air, or, figuratively, something resembling a pocket of air.
Example Sentences
Later Temple could hear them outside her door, whimpering and scuffing, or, rushing thickly in when the negro maid opened the door, climbing and sprawling onto the bed and into Miss Reba's lap with wheezy, flatulent sounds, billowing into the rich pneumasis of her breast and tonguing along the metal tankard which she waved in one ringed hand as she talked.
Word Forms
- pneumases
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pneumo, pneumoniac, pneumony, pleuroperipneumony, peripneumony, peripneumonia.
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