expletive infixation

noun

The insertion of expressive, often vulgar or obscene, expletives into words, usually in colloquial or slang speech, or the resulting expression: tmesis with expletives.

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Meanings

nounexpletive infixation (countable and uncountable, plural expletive infixations)

plural expletive infixations

  1. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe insertion of expressive, often vulgar or obscene, expletives into words, usually in colloquial or slang speech, or the resulting expression: tmesis with expletives.
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