Tesselate (also Tessellate) (adj)
tes-e-layt
to form of small squares or blocks, as floors or pavements; form or arrange in a checkered or mosaic pattern.
Tessellate “to form of small squares” comes from Latin tessellātus “mosaic,” based on tessella “small square stone or cube.” The Latin noun tessella is a diminutive of tessera, a small piece used in mosaic work that often has four sides, which comes from Ionic Greek tésseres “four.”
Example sentences
“The pattern tessellates out to the egdes of the floor.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
