Expletive infixation is a process by which an expletive or profanity is inserted into a word, usually for intensification. It is similar to tmesis, but...

expression that is strongly impolite or offensive Expletive infixation, morphological process of inserting expletive attributive or profanity into a word This...

Look up expletive (linguistics) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dummy pronoun Expletive attributive Expletive deleted Expletive infixation Morphology...

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...

rather than an affix, is sometimes considered a type of infixation. These are the so-called "expletive infixes", as in abso-bloody-lutely. Since these are...

placing a strong stress on the "H", relating it in various ways to expletive infixation. Thus Quinion writes: Its long survival must have a lot to do with...

when not separated.[citation needed] Interfix Affix Clitic Diacope Expletive infixation Lexical diffusion Portuguese personal pronouns § Syntax on future...

head, such as in split infinitives (to boldly go) or infixation, most commonly expletive infixation (in-fucking-credible). Two common parts of speech used...

specifically fucking as an infix, or more properly, a tmesis (see expletive infixation). For example, the word in-fucking-credible sounds acceptable to...

stand-alone profanities are among the most common in natural speech. Expletive infixation is the use of a profane word as an intensifier inside of another...

forceful and sometimes vulgar forms of the phrase may be constructed by the infixation of modifiers, including "shut the hell up" and "shut the fuck up". In...

Gruyter Mouton Yu, Alan C. L. (August 21, 2006), A natural history of infixation, p. 34 Gabriele Diewald & Ilse Wischer (2002) New Reflections on Grammaticalization...