expletive infixation

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English

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Examples

abso-fucking-lutely
im-bloody-possible

Noun

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expletive infixation (countable and uncountable, plural expletive infixations)

  1. (linguistics) The insertion of expressive, often vulgar or obscene, expletives into words, usually in colloquial or slang speech or the resulting expression; tmesis.

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