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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Nitpickery, or, We're All Human #90212 12/24/2002 12:39 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,214 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,214 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Is today's word "hobbledehoy" presented as a noun, but used in the examples given as an adjective? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Nitpickery, or, We're All Human #90213 12/24/2002 1:18 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Nitpickery, or, We're All Human #90214 12/25/2002 8:51 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Is today's word "hobbledehoy" presented as a noun, but used in the examples given as an adjective? Yes. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,393 Members9,211 Most Online12,483 Mar 28th, 2026 Newest Members Boo boo kitty fu, peterreineck, Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd 9,211 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 34 A C Bowden 19 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,214 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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