pig Latin

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n. A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the leading phonetic of a word to the end and appending -ay - however, if the word begins with a vowel then "-way" is suffixed with no leading phonetic change.

“Next: Ussin-fay is pig Latin for fussin’ just as ixnay conceals nix, which in turn has a slang sense of “playing about fretfully”; a whimpering infant is said to be fussin’.”

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