cutthroat compound
A compound word formed of a transitive verb and a nounA compound word formed of a transitive verb and a noun; an (usually exocentric) agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound.
Meaning
1 sensesA compound word formed of a transitive verb and a noun; an (usually exocentric) agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound.
Origin
Coined by editor and linguist Brianne Hughes in the 2010s, as cutthroat is an example of tCoined by editor and linguist Brianne Hughes in the 2010s, as cutthroat is an example of the class of compound words. Compare cranberry morpheme, eggcorn, Hobson-Jobson, mondegreen.
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Forms
plural: cutthroat compounds| Singular | cutthroat compound |
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Synonyms
2 synonymsSee also
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