Word.ws English Dictionary

expletive infixation

expletive infixation noun: the insertion of expressive, often vulgar or obscene, expletives into words, usually in colloquial or slang speech, or the resulting expression: tmesis with expletives.

Noun

expletive infixation (countable and uncountable, plural expletive infixations)

  1. The insertion of expressive, often vulgar or obscene, expletives into words, usually in colloquial or slang speech, or the resulting expression: tmesis with expletives.

Forms of expletive infixation

pluralexpletive infixations

Questions about expletive infixation

What does expletive infixation mean?
Expletive infixation means the insertion of expressive, often vulgar or obscene, expletives into words, usually in colloquial or slang speech, or the resulting expression: tmesis with expletives.
What part of speech is expletive infixation?
Expletive infixation is a noun.
What is the plural of expletive infixation?
The plural of expletive infixation is expletive infixations.

Words near expletive infixation in the dictionary

  1. explete
  2. expletion
  3. expletive
  4. expletive deleted
  5. expletive deleteds
  6. expletive infixation
  7. expletively
  8. expletiveness
  9. expletives
  10. expletives deleted
  11. expletivity

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: expletive infixation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “expletive infixation.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/expletive_infixation. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.