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1. -ati, comb. form View full entry 1985
...Forming nouns (often humorous nonce-words) designating elite or prominent groups of people who are associated with what is specified by the stem word, as glamourati, soccerati, etc....
2. back-, comb. form View full entry ?c1225
...General senses in combination....
3. burn-, comb. form View full entry c1485
...With verb + object....
4. cyber-, comb. form View full entry 1961
...Forming esp. temporary and nonce-words, as cybercubicle, cyberfeminist, cyberfriend, cyberlover, cybersnob, etc.; cyber-sheepishly adv....
5. eco-, comb. form View full entry 1939
...Forming adjectives with the sense ‘ecological and ——’, as eco-cultural, eco-historical, eco-philosophical, eco-religious, etc.; see also ecogeographic, ecogeographical4, ...
6. † eft-, comb. form View full entry a1522
...obs. Sc. form of aft (see aft); only in eft castle, eft ship...
7. -erati, comb. form View full entry 1990
...Forming nouns (often humorous nonce-words) designating elite or prominent groups of people who are associated with what is specified by the stem word....
8. Euro-, comb. form View full entry 1850
...General uses. (Often spec. with reference to western or continental Europe.)...
9. ill-, comb. form View full entry c1480
...General uses....
10. kiss-, comb. form View full entry a1586
...In Comb., forming nouns and adjectives. Kiss is the imperative or stem of the vb. See also kiss-in-the-ring, kiss-me-quick...
11. nu-, comb. form View full entry 1892
...orig. U.S. In commercial use, forming the names and designations of products and companies....
12. pick-, comb. form View full entry c1400
...Forming nouns and adjectives, chiefly where the second element would be the object of the verb to pick....
13. pinch-, comb. form View full entry 1582
...See also pinch-gut, pinchpenny...
14. pop-, comb. form View full entry 1594
...Forming nouns and adjectives, with the sense ‘that pops’, or ‘which pops or can be popped in some way’....
15. pull-, comb. form View full entry 1552
...Forming compounds with nouns....
16. push-, comb. form View full entry 1843
...Forming nouns with the sense ‘moved, actuated, or operated by a push, or by pushing’....
17. quasi-, comb. form View full entry 1643
...Prefixed to a noun with the sense ‘resembling or simulating, but not really the same as, that properly so termed; having some but not all of the properties of a thing or...
18. sit-, comb. form View full entry c1652
...the verbal stem in combs., as sit-horseObs.sit-houseObs.sit-me-downalso sit-me-down-uponcolloq....
19. slip-, comb. form View full entry 1521
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20. snap-, comb. form View full entry 1603
...With ns. (also forming derivatives)....
