Hemingway

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Hemingway

  • /ˈhɛmɪŋ.weɪ/

proper noun Hemmingway

  1. A surname.
  2. Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer and journalist. […] few of these boys know how to fight alone, and hardly any without a knife or a gun. They are not to be equated with matadors or boxers or Hemingway heroes. They are dangerous pack hounds who will not even expose themselves singly in the outfield.
  3. A town in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, United States.

verb Hemingways · Hemingwaying · Hemingwayed · Hemmingway

  1. To speak, write or behave in a Hemingwayesque manner. But there is no literary law that says thai — to set forth these beauties — the writers must first excel in the art of Hemingwaying.
  2. To study, or talk about, Ernest Hemingway. After Hemingway's death in 1961, he was bombarded with questions about the author and finally asked a reporter to let it be known that he was “Hemingwayed out!”

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Closest in meaning: ernest hemingway, ernest, laconic, minimalistic, concise, economical, terse, spare, plainspoken, gritty, direct, rugged, masculine, straightforward, muscular, stoic

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@misc{hemingway_2026,
  title = {Hemingway},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hemingway},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}