backform

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of back-form (“a back-formation”). alt-of,alternative
    — I agree 100%, but I feel compelled, as if by a spot of bad beef, to point out that "gruntled" is a real word and listed in many better dictionaries. Its use is either archaic (in which case it means the same as "disgruntled", but is less emphatic) or recent (in which case it's a backform that means the opposite of "disgruntled"). I had an office mate who regularly used "gruntled", so this came up now and then.
动词 v.
  1. Alternative form of back-form. alt-of,alternative
    — Pennanen (1966: 150) also commented on the relative productiveness of British and American English in backforming new words: Although the coining of back-formations is at present mainly carried on in America on the various levels of spoken and written usage, it should be emphasized that the difference here is one of degree only.

词形变化

backforms plural backforms present,singular,third-person backforming participle,present backformed participle,past backformed past backforms plural

词源

词源 1
A back-formation from backformation. By surface analysis, back- + form.
词源 2
From back- + form.
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