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Is today's word "hobbledehoy" presented as a noun, but used in the examples given as an adjective?
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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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Is today's word "hobbledehoy" presented as a noun, but used in the examples given as an adjective?
Yes.
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