adjective

• A more emphatic adjective is perjinkety; and it has the noun perjinkity, defined as —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
• The whippoorwill would merit special status among "tosspots" because of its tucked-in adjective if one could be sure it was falsely boasting of its own obsessive sadism rather than odiously begging somebody else to do it or even, perhaps, reporting a crime. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
• With no mastery of verse, for even the English heroic (a balancing-pole which has enabled so many feebler men to walk the ticklish rope of momentary success) was uneasy to him, he essayed the Cowleian Pindarique, as the adjective was then rightly spelled with a hint of Parisian rather than Theban origin. —  The Function of the Poet and Other Essays
• The self-referring adjectives listed above bring out, respectively, that words are: a. practical b-c. in some language or other (This class of self-referring adjectives is represented in each language I am familiar with by one word -- namely the adjective which describes words, including itself, as being in that language. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
• In this class of names the adjective is the distinctive word, and always has a capital; respecting the other term, usage is divided, but seems rather to favour two capitals. —  The Grammar of English Grammars

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