Tmesis

created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) 2 C!s Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:50:06

Tme"sis (?), n. [L., from Gr. a cutting, fr. to cut.] Gram.

The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for whatsoever place.

Chthonic	Fuck as a mid-word addition	Things that have never been said in the entire history of man	Polysyndeton
a grecian urn can hold a lot of puke	expletive infixation	Cocktail Party Effect	Fawlty Towers
Apocope	infix	rhetorical terms	Seriatim
Wain	diaeresis	wordplay	Asyndetic
Pomeranian	synecdoche	Asyndeton	The Woman Who Sat on a Toilet and Wouldn't Get Off
Blackstar	Syzygy	canoodle	Irvine Welsh

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