| 释义 |
-thon, suffix
Var. -athon used in some words, as telethon.
1954Amer. Speech XXIX. 229 The word moviethon is merely the most recent in what promises to be a long list of words created arbitrarily by means of the -thon suffix. 1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. 228 Rockerthon, poolathon and pianothon appeared in Canada in 1955. |