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Modern day verb-noun compound: ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶c̶r̶y̶p̶t̶o̶ ̶=̶>̶ ̶c̶r̶y̶p̶t̶o̶m̶i̶n̶e̶r̶ Although I don't think any formal dictionary has accepted this term
by trinovantes 4y ago
Modern day verb-noun compound: ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶c̶r̶y̶p̶t̶o̶ ̶=̶>̶ ̶c̶r̶y̶p̶t̶o̶m̶i̶n̶e̶r̶
Although I don't think any formal dictionary has accepted this term yet
edit: It's surprising hard to find a modern counterexample because verb-noun construction just feels off e.g. minecrypto
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoThat's not exocentric (a cryptominer is a kind of miner) and it's noun-verb, not verb-noun. Minecrypto would be the equivalent to the construction in the post.
- ttctciyf 4y agoThough this is the normal construction: noun + verb + "-er", like the "firefighter" and "naysayer" examples in the thread, whereas the tweet's claim is that "exocentric" coinages with form: verb + noun, such as "pickpocket" and "spendthrift" where the verb comes first and there's no "-er", date from 1550 to 1700 almost exclusively. It feels like there should be a modern counterexample, but I admit I can't recall any. "Runmouth" would be a near miss, but it apparently refers to a personal quality rather than a person. Perhaps a resurgence is possible with words like "baitclick" and "postshit"?
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- trinovantes 4y agoAh, I missed the comment about excluding the suffix and mixed up the order
- adhesive_wombat 4y ago> Perhaps a resurgence is possible with words like "baitclick" and "postshit"? Perhaps "fixbug" and "closeissue" for software types and "cleansignal" for a front-end engineer.
- sterlind 4y agothat doesn't fit the pattern. this was specifically VO-ordered compounds without any -er, like spend+thrift or scoff+law.