1935 G. K. Zipf (1936) v. 31 Not all languages make, say, noun-like and verb-like distinctions.
1958 C. F. Hockett xxvi. 222 A few stems which show no inflection show syntactical behavior so nounlike that we class them as nouns.
1971 D. Crystal 92 We may have isolated a few noun-like words.