Tamsinate
tamsinates, tamsinating, tamsination, past tamsinated
1. verb. subject informal prose to exacting scrutiny and high-handed correction. an act of grammatical pedantry in which amendments are delivered in the manner of a condescending school ma’am, usually resulting in the badgitation of the beneficiary.
2. verb. obsessively clean and tidy an area until it gleams like mr muscle’s kitchen.
‘madam, i fear i shall be accused of tamsination, but your shopping list contains a most egregious dangling modifier.’
lady sneerwell in richard brinsley sheridan, school for scandal (1777)
‘the room was clean. too clean. the tip-off said there was a jane on the floor with a slug in her head. now the joint looked tamsinated.’
raymond chandler, the long goodbye (1953)
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