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Feeler

//ˈfiːləɹ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something that feels. literally

    "Are you more of a feeler or more of a thinker?"

  2. 2
    one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste wordnet
  3. 3
    An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect.
  4. 4
    slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish wordnet
  5. 5
    Something ventured to test another's feelings, opinion, or position. figuratively

    "I sent out some feelers but they didn't seem interested."

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  1. 6
    sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ wordnet
  2. 7
    a presumptive person; someone who bases on gut feeling, such as assuming or imagining that something said or done, whether positive or negative, was for a person despite having no concrete confirmation but gut feeling, or someone who assumes one's affection is reciprocated, or indulges in one's own wishful thinking or flatters oneself Philippines
  3. 8
    a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English feler, feeler, felar, equivalent to feel + -er. Animal organ definition from 1660s. Transferred sense of "proposal put forth to observe the reaction it gets" is from 1830.

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