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Aesop-like

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English

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Etymology

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From Aesop +‎ -like.

Adjective

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Aesop-like (comparative more Aesop-like, superlative most Aesop-like)

  1. Resembling an Aesop's fable or moral.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 158:
      As regards the map, this was the beginning of an Aesop-like fable - 'How the Underground lines got their colours' - because they were all given a colour, although not the 'right' ones from today's perspective.

Usage notes

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  • Aesop-like is several times more common than Aesoplike in print.[1] GPO manual favors using a hyphen with words ending in -like when the first element is a proper name.[2]

Alternative forms

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References

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  1. ^ (Aesoplike*6),Aesop-like at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
  2. ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
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