Category:English exocentric compounds
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English terms composed of two or more stems, none of which is the head of that compound.
- Category:English bahuvrihi compounds: 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.”
- Category:English exocentric verb-noun compounds: English compounds in which the first element is a transitive verb, the second a noun functioning as its direct object, and whose referent is the person or thing doing the action.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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- English bahuvrihi compounds (0 c, 103 e)
E
- English exocentric verb-noun compounds (0 c, 260 e)
Pages in category "English exocentric compounds"
The following 178 pages are in this category, out of 178 total.
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- camel case
- carrot top
- cathead
- cathead biscuit
- cease and desist
- cellar door
- chapstick lesbian
- child's play
- Christmas tree
- clown doctor
- cobra effect
- comedy of errors
- computer illiteracy
- computer literacy
- copy/paste
- copy and paste
- copy-and-paste
- copy-paste
- copypaste
- crowbill
- culture vulture
- cutie patootie
- cuttlebone
- cuttlefish bone