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cutthroat compounds

cutthroat compounds is the plural of cutthroat compound.

Meaning of cutthroat compound

Noun

cutthroat compound (plural cutthroat compounds)

  1. A compound word formed of a transitive verb and a noun; an (usually exocentric) agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound.
    • But not for the compounds I study — the fun ones! — which are called agentive and instrumental exocentric verb-noun compounds. Now, for the rest of the talk I'm going to be calling them cutthroat compounds, so don't worry about that.[2013 November 14, Brianne Hughes, “Cutthroat Backstabbers: The Devious World of English Verb-Noun Compounding”, in YouTube, archived from the original on 16 May 2015
    Synonyms:
    cutthroat, turncoat compound

Questions about cutthroat compounds

What is cutthroat compounds the plural of?
Cutthroat compounds is the plural of cutthroat compound.

Words near cutthroat compounds in the dictionary

  1. Cuttery
  2. cuttest
  3. cutteth
  4. cutthroat
  5. cutthroat compound
  6. cutthroat compounds
  7. cutthroat eel
  8. cutthroat eels
  9. cutthroat razor
  10. cutthroat trout
  11. cutthroats

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