-monthercomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly, e.g. six monther Brit.

/ˌsɪks ˈmʌnθə/, U.S.

/ˌsɪks ˈmənθər/.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: month n.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < month n.¹ + -er suffix¹.

Following a numeral: forming compounds denoting (a) persons or things which have lasted or are aged a specified number of months; (b) periods of a certain number of months.

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1851 E. E. Stuart Let. 29 May in R. Stuart et al. Stuart Lett. (1961) I. 191 That miserable $7 a monther is a foot out of joint and her confinement coming on.]

1857 Let. 9 July in Harper's Mag. July 319/2 Miss Nancy Smith, a nere naber, had twins day before yesterday. One of them is supposed to be a seven monther, a poor scraggy thing.

1882 P. H. Hayne Poems 385 She lay, in a faint, by the opened door, With her eighteenth-monther, a restless imp.

1889 E. Dowson Let. 18 Oct. (1967) 109 Smith is a fixture..& Tweedy from what he tells me, is a six monther.

1970 J. S. Bruner in K. J. Connolly Mechanisms Motor Skill Devel. 88 About a third of the trials of the 1-year-olds are of this pattern and a quarter of the 17 monthers.

1994 Daily Tel. 18 Nov. 33/5 Sir Alistair Grant, chairman of supermarket group Argyll, is offering a 24-monther to ensure he enjoys the next annual meeting more than the last.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	-monther
释义	-monthercomb. form Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly, e.g. six monther Brit. /ˌsɪks ˈmʌnθə/, U.S. /ˌsɪks ˈmənθər/. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: month n.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < month n.¹ + -er suffix¹. Following a numeral: forming compounds denoting (a) persons or things which have lasted or are aged a specified number of months; (b) periods of a certain number of months. ΚΠ 1851 E. E. Stuart Let. 29 May in R. Stuart et al. Stuart Lett. (1961) I. 191 That miserable $7 a monther is a foot out of joint and her confinement coming on.] 1857 Let. 9 July in Harper's Mag. July 319/2 Miss Nancy Smith, a nere naber, had twins day before yesterday. One of them is supposed to be a seven monther, a poor scraggy thing. 1882 P. H. Hayne Poems 385 She lay, in a faint, by the opened door, With her eighteenth-monther, a restless imp. 1889 E. Dowson Let. 18 Oct. (1967) 109 Smith is a fixture..& Tweedy from what he tells me, is a six monther. 1970 J. S. Bruner in K. J. Connolly Mechanisms Motor Skill Devel. 88 About a third of the trials of the 1-year-olds are of this pattern and a quarter of the 17 monthers. 1994 Daily Tel. 18 Nov. 33/5 Sir Alistair Grant, chairman of supermarket group Argyll, is offering a 24-monther to ensure he enjoys the next annual meeting more than the last. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form1857
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