- Look up
expletive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Expletive may
refer to:
Expletive (linguistics), a word or
phrase that is not
needed to express...
- The
phrase expletive deleted refers to
profanity which has been
censored by the
author or by a
subsequent censor,
usually appearing in
place of the profanity...
- 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...
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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...
- An
expletive is a word or
phrase inserted into a
sentence that is not
needed to
express the
basic meaning of the sentence. It is
regarded as semantically...
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Expletive Delighted! is a 1986
album by
British folk rock band
Fairport Convention,
their fifteenth studio album since their debut in 1968. It is the...
- used the
expletive live on air
during the
state visit of
Elizabeth II to West Germany.[citation needed] It is
commonly used as an
expletive in novels...
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Jesus H.
Christ is an
expletive[citation needed]
interjection that
refers to the
Christian religious figure of
Jesus Christ. It is
typically uttered in...
- of its own,
including the use of
alien profanities (such as the
alien expletive "shazbot!" from Mork & Mindy, a word that
briefly enjo**** po****r usage...
- A
dummy pronoun, also
known as an
expletive pronoun, is a
deictic pronoun that
fulfills a
syntactical requirement without providing a
contextually explicit...
