In linguistics, an evocative, descriptive compound word, from Sanscrit, often comprising an adjective then noun, or two nouns, in which the first part (A) describes the second (B), to create a word describing something else which has a “B that is A”
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Word of the week: It's an obscure, archaic 19th-century word with a definition almost as strangely obvious and clear as what it describes isn't – poor, illegible handwriting, and bad spelling and grammar
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