ADVERB-ADVERB ADVERB-VERB NOUN upshot evergreen whereabouts downpour ADJECTIVE offhand overdue never-never income ADVERB overboard outright henceforth overmatched VERB outlaw outsmart fast underplay forward VERB-NOUN VERB-ADJ.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
They are a serious tactical challenge but one that -- I mean, I don't anticipate the Taliban suddenly setting up a government in Kabul any time soon, which is not to underplay the fact that they showed some resilience and they're obviously planning a pretty big offensive in the spring.— CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2007
KLEIN: Well, that's because, you know, we overplay gaffes and we underplay reforms.— CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2009
NOUN ADJECTIVE ADVERB VERB NOUN spaceship homesick flashback godsend ADJECTIVE madman bittersweet blackout freeload ADVERB upshot evergreen henceforth underplay VERB scarecrow fail-safe tumbledown hearsay Independent morphemes may marry in such ingenious ways that the part of speech of a compound may be different from that of either of its components, as in the last two entries above: tumble (verb) + down (adverb) = tumbledown (adjective); hear (verb) + say (verb) = hearsay (noun or adjective).— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
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