nounyadj.
/ˈnaʊni/, U.S. /ˈnaʊni/ Having or using many nouns; noun-like.
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substantivea1398
substantivatec1400
nominalc1450
substantival1796
nounal1871
nouny1926
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > other specific style
judicial1532
heroic1590
judiciary1603
wild1645
heroi-comic1708
mock-heroic1708
heroi-comical1712
flebilea1734
prosai-comi-epic1749
lusory1779
sulphureous1791
harlequinic1804
mock-heroical1825
newspaperish1825
marmoreal1892
kailyard1895
freestyle1906
paperback1921
nouny1926
Time-ese1947
nounal1952
kitchen sink1959
effectist1961
writerly1974
dirty realist1984
1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 654 It is as an unfailing sign of a nouny abstract style that a cluster of -ion words is chiefly to be dreaded.
1987 W. H. Beale Pragmatic Theory Rhetoric i. 27 Some nouns are ‘verby’ and some verbs are ‘nouny’.
1997 L. Stassen Intransitive Predication ix. 344 We are trying to define some sorting device which can correctly assign any natural language to the classes of nouny or verby languages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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