- Look up
expletive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Expletive may
refer to:
Expletive (linguistics), a word or
phrase that is not
needed to express...
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expletives have
great significance in the
study of the
history of
languages and cross-cultural comparisons. The term is
distinct from the
expletives of...
- figleaf. The term
expletive is
commonly used to
refer to any bad
language (or profanity), used with or
without meaning.
Expletives in this wide sense...
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words are not
necessarily compounds. The most
commonly inserted English expletives are adjectival:
either participles (****ing, mother-****ing, freaking...
- government's
position on
fleeting expletives was unconstitutional," and, "While we will
continue to
strive to
eliminate expletives from live broadcasts, the inherent...
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Jesus H.
Christ is an
expletive interjection that
refers to the
Christian religious figure of Jesus. It is
typically uttered in anger, surprise, or frustration;...
- An
expletive attributive is an
adjective or
adverb (or
adjectival or
adverbial phrase) that does not
contribute to the
meaning of a sentence, but is used...
- "Shut up" is a
direct command with a
meaning very
similar to "be quiet", but
which is
commonly perceived as a more
forceful command to stop
making noise...
- A
dummy pronoun, also
known as an
expletive pronoun, is a
deictic pronoun that
fulfills a
syntactical requirement without providing a
contextually explicit...
- are
grammatical expletives,
specifically expletive attributives (or, equivalently,
attributive expletives or attributive-only
expletives; they also qualify...
