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wordhood

wordhood

English

Noun

wordhood

  1. The quality of being a word.
    • You can call them nonstandard, colloquial, informal, casual, slangy, or even signs of the apocalypse, but there's no reason to deny them wordhood. Ben Zimmer, Mailbag Friday: "Texted", 2009

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