Category:English bahuvrihi compounds

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Newest pages ordered by last category link update:
  1. dothead
  2. sweet tooth
  3. rubberneck
  4. goldseed
  5. white-shirt
  6. softhead
  7. nimble-chops
  8. green hand
  9. spindlelegs
  10. sabertooth
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. greenshirt
  2. lobsterback
  3. dimwit
  4. straw shoe
  5. greenshank
  6. hunchback
  7. yellowbelly
  8. greybeard
  9. hot-brain
  10. yellowback

English compounds in which the first part (A) modifies the second (B), and whose meaning follows a metonymic pattern: “<person> having a B that is A.”