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Zippymorphs

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Today’s Zippy, with morphological play from Dingburgers:

One attested derived nominalization, contemplation from the verb contemplate; one over-extended derived nominalization, ingestation (rather that ingestion) from the verb ingest; one extremely over-extended derived nominalization, overindulgification (rather than overindulgence) from the verb overindulge; and one derived nominalization, donutitude. based on a noun (donut) rather than an adjective (as in similitude, based on similar) — each one more outrageous than the one before.

 



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