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COMPOUND WORDS
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"WHAT'S IN A WORD?"

EVERYTHING!

LETTER, WORD, PHRASE, SENTENCE, PARAGRAPH, PAGE, CHAPTER, NOVEL,
BOOK, TOME ...

EVERY THING ...




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Compound Words


© - Tom Hyland - 10/6/11


Some are Hyphenated -
Others Not -
Take a Look-See -
At What I Got ...


Able-Bodied = Healthy.
Busy-Body = Gossip.
Catty-Cornered = Askew, Diagonal.
Dogleg = Sharp Bend.


Easygoing = Relaxed, Informal.
Fact-finding = Info Seeking.
Go-getter = Enterprising & Aggressive Person.
Highbinder = Corrupt Politician. Is there Another Kind?


Ill-assorted = Mismatched or Incompatible.
Jackanapes = Monkey. See Pic of Matlack!
Knickknack = Small Ornament or Object.
Labanotation = Detailed Dance Movements.


Made-to-Order = Exactly as Required.
Namby-Pamby = Silly, Overly Sensitive.
Oddball = Unconventional or Unusual Person.
Pancake = Flapjack.


Quacksalver = A Quack! False Medical Knowledge.
Rabble-Rouser = Person who stirs up Anger in a Crowd,
Saddlecloth = Shows Racehorse’s Number.
Tattletale = Person who reveals Secrets.


Up-and-coming = Successful, or Improving.
View Haloo = Same as ‘Tally-Ho the Fox!’
Webhead = Frequent User of WWW.
Xenophobia = Fear of Foreign People and Things.


Yadda Yadda Yadda = Superficial, unending, boring Talk.
Zero-defect = No defects or Flaws.


There you have It -
Some Compound Words -
From A to Z ...
A Few are New to Me!



© - TKH.



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 Reviews of "COMPOUND WORDS"
Reviewed by Chip Bergeron
Reviewed on October 15, 2011
Now I knows more than I done bee-fore. Thankee kindly.

Chip

Reviewed by Kay P Devenish
Reviewed on October 15, 2011
I am going to keep this one as you have just educated me and I needed that...amazing effort!

Reviewed by Richard King
Reviewed on October 15, 2011
Hey Tom, Did someone have just a tad bit of extra TIME-ON-THEIR-HANDS, or were you just throwing a little SLAP-STICK our way???? It was fun, thanks Dick

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on October 15, 2011
"Busy-Body = Gossip.
Catty-Cornered = Askew, Diagonal"

Both describe you to a "t"...or is that tee or tea, or...Jurseeeeey

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on October 15, 2011
Jackanape Matalacke – you sure have a way with words, Cuz:

Jackanape - An impertinent, presumptuous person;
An impudent, mischievous, child;
I think I’m gonna savor this one, for awhile.

PS: Be Careful; he’s also a Tattletale!


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