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I find wine snob epithets amusing. I wonder what substances in a wine can reliably be
associated with "gawky and hobbledehoy" taste. I wonder what "tomboy" taste would be?
How would gender be identified?
I hadn't thought about it before, but if nouns can so easily be verbed, a bit of ellipsis
should easily turn nouns into adjectives.
From a grammar site:
Nouns used as Adjectives:
Sometimes nouns can be used as adjectives to define or describe another noun.
Examples:
the porch light
a house fly
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