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Old 09-07-2015, 09:38 PM   #1413
Little.Egret
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Originally Posted by chitrodhar View Post
I wonder if you made up that word, as I have never heard it before
It's a back formation sort of like 'gruntled'

(OED)

unputdownable adj.
1947 R. Chandler Let. 5 Jan. in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 66, I found it absolutely..unputdownable.
1982 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 May 1466/2 The novel is highly readable and quite unputdownable.

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