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Reiterative   Listen
noun
Reiterative  n.  
1.
(Gram.) A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.
2.
A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition; as, dillydally.





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"Reiterative" Quotes from Famous Books



... baby-talk as that entertained by old Doctor Johnson himself, and no longer yearns to "do yidin on the team-tars," as she used to express it. The word "birthday" is still "birfday" with her, and "water" is still "wagger," but she now religiously eschews all such reiterative diminutives as "roundy-poundy" and "Poppsy-Woppsy" and "beddy-bed." She has even learned, after much effort, to convert her earlier "keam of feet" into the more legitimate and mature "cream of wheat." And ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer


Words linked to "Reiterative" :   reiterate, repetitive


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