makeweight

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From make + weight.

"I'll throw in two for makeweight," said the woman with her good-natured look. — A Little Princess: Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time, Frances Hodgson Burnett
He seems ..." added Phyllis, throwing in the information by a way of a makeweight, "in a beastly temper." — Mike and Psmith, Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
The lonely Earth amid the balls That hurry through the eternal halls, A makeweight flying to the void, Supplemental asteroid, Or compensatory spark, Shoots across the neutral Dark. — Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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