NOUN-INCORPORATION
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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NOUN-INCORPORATION. A term in
WORD-FORMATION for the creation of a compound in which a noun is incorporated into a verb as its first element:
baby-sit,
house-hunt,
sleep-walk. Such forms go back at least to the Middle Ages, as with
backbite (
c.1300) to bite someone on or behind the back. They are often nonce or stunt usages, sometimes with a touch of humour:
backseat-drive,
ballroom-dance. They generally have two sources: (1)
BACK-FORMATION:
eavesdrop from
eavesdropper;
kidnap from
kidnapper;
mass-produce from
mass production;
window-shop from
window-shopping. (2) The conversion of a noun-noun compound to use as a verb:
fingerprint, as in
fingerprinting suspects;
scent-mark, as in: ‘How often a cat scent-marks varies according to how old it is’ (
BBC WildLife, Jan. 1989).
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