toothcombing

English

Etymology

See fine-tooth comb.

Adjective

toothcombing (comparative more toothcombing, superlative most toothcombing)

  1. Very thorough; detailed (of a search, analysis etc.).
    • 2010, Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass, Arrow 2011, p. 30:
      Gladstone's toothcombing analysis of what the poems said and – sometimes even more importantly — what they did not say thus led him to remarkable discoveries about the cultural world of the ancient Greeks.
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