In case you've faced some hurdles solving the clue, Noun-forming suffix, we've got the answer for you. Crossword puzzles ...
In politics, it takes little to turn a minor dust-up into a scandal. And thanks to the Nixon administration, American English now has a handy little suffix at the ready for the muckrakers: -gate. This ...
The canonical use of -ish is as a suffix meaning “approximately,” as in bluish, tallish, sixish, or even hungry-ish. This is the definition—the only definition—that you’ll find in Merriam-Webster, ...
Is there any suffix more adorable than the lovely little –ling? It gives us yearlings and starlings, downy ducklings and goslings, affectionate darlings and siblings, and comforting tender dumplings.
Merriam-Webster says its dictionary website has had very high traffic for words ending in i-s-m. Words such as racism, terrorism, fascism and capitalism. Earlier this year, Oxford Dictionary announced ...
A suffix is a letter or a group of letters that can be added to a word to change its meaning. Adding the suffix -ous turns a noun into an adjective. It means 'full of'. For example, 'dangerous' means ...