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adj.1
abbrev. of adjective a. and n.
1668J. Wilkins Ess. towards Real Character ii. xii. 295 Filial is the Adj. 1755Johnson. 1836Richardson Eng. Dict. 1884N.E.D. I. p. xxvi. 1903‘T. Collins’ Such is Life (1944) 44 When anybody calls him a Port Philliper..he comes out straight: ‘You're a (adj.) liar,’ says he, ‘I'm a Cornstalk, born in New South Wales.’ 1953H. C. Wyld Hist. Mod. Colloq. Eng. (ed. 3) ix. 325 The following additional examples of Pl. Adj. may be noted, all from Paston Letters—certeins notables and resonables causes. 1985Neuphilologische Mitteilungen LXXXVI. 236 Transformational grammar..derives Adj + N from N—is—Adj but not vice versa. |