Agentive Exocentric [V+N]N Compounds

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A list of 103 words by TankHughes.

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About

Agentive and Instrumental Exocentric Verb-Nouns: aka CUTTHROAT COMPOUNDS.

Everything I know about Cutthroat compounds is attached to this link: http://www.encyclopediabriannica.com/?p=57

I started listing compounds that are still found in Modern English to some degree, but now I'm adding them as I see fit. I've found about 1035, 800 of which I am 100% sure about. The important thing now is to gather all plausible candidates, and sift through them later.

A compound is two words put together to mean one thing. These people and things are named for what they do.

Many of them appear with slight variants like DRIVESCREW, DRIVE-SCREW, DRIVE SCREW, but here I'm only listing them once. The spaces and hyphens don't make them more or less of a 'word', the variants are caused by general orthographic changes or hyphen-related fashions.

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slumry commented on the list agentive-exocentric--v-n-n-compounds

I guess it would be stop-loss rather than stoploss, if at all.

July 31, 2015
slumry commented on the list agentive-exocentric--v-n-n-compounds

What do you think about quitclaim, stoploss and maybe loosestrife?

July 31, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the list agentive-exocentric--v-n-n-compounds

In the meantime, your talk was awesome. Thank you, TankHughes.
And I vote for obscure ones, too!

March 7, 2014
bilby commented on the list agentive-exocentric--v-n-n-compounds

Your link to Gapeseeds et al is borked.

March 7, 2014
hernesheir commented on the list agentive-exocentric--v-n-n-compounds

My list of compound derogative terms, Gapeseeds and Muckworms, contains many others.

March 6, 2014
hernesheir commented on the list agentive-exocentric--v-n-n-compounds

List the obscure ones too Tank!

March 6, 2014
TankHughes commented on the list agentive-exocentric--v-n-n-compounds

thanks hemesheir. Spurred by your comment, I've added more of the common and modern examples. I have a huge Excel spreadsheet of the 500+ I found in my research, but it doesn't seem helpful to list all of the obscure ones here.
Interested parties can watch my 2013 Ignite Portland talk about these compounds: http://youtu.be/x1pYC0AAbJ0

March 6, 2014
hernesheir commented on the list agentive-exocentric--v-n-n-compounds

cutpurse

March 6, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the list agentive-exocentric--v-n-n-compounds

You inspire us.

March 6, 2014
TankHughes commented on the list agentive-exocentric--v-n-n-compounds

I've found about 500 total, but this list sadly has 8.

December 17, 2013

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