Not P but DFW on lexicography

[Mark Kohut]

poly·mer·ic ˌpäl-ə-ˈmer-ik. 1. : *of, relating to, or constituting a
polymer*.

A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules
called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 2:18 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From "Authority and American Usage":
>
> . . . and these controversies take a certain amount of time to unpack
> before their relation to what makes Garner’s dictionary so eminently worth
> your hard-earned reference-book dollar can even be established; and in fact
> there’s no way even to begin the whole harrowing polymeric discussion
> without first taking a moment to establish and define the highly colloquial
> term SNOOT.
>
> What does "polymeric" mean here?
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