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单词 -rific
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-rificcomb. form

Primary stress is usually attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly, e.g. splatterific Brit. /ˌsplatəˈrɪfɪk/, U.S. /ˌsplædəˈrɪfɪk/.
Forms: 1900s -rific, 1900s -rrific, 1900s -riffic, 1900s -rriffic. Esp. after a consonant ( Brit. /əˈrɪfɪk/, U.S. /əˈrɪfɪk/) 1900s -erific, 1900s -errific.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: terrific adj.
Etymology: < -rific (in terrific adj.), although many of the examples below could be interpreted instead as showing blend formations. Compare -alicious comb. form, -tastic comb. form.Found from the 2nd half of the 20th cent. in a small number of formations exemplified below.
slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
Forming adjectives (chiefly ad hoc formations) with the sense ‘embodying the qualities denoted or implied by the first element in an excellent way or to an extreme degree’.
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1962 Encounter June 55/2 How did the film companies propose to sell the Twist to a still apathetic teenage audience? Columbia's campaign book for the cinema managers coins new superlatives—‘it's Twisterrific’.
1989 Fast Forward 18 Oct. 31/3 What a brillerific comp!
1997 Entertainm. Weekly 24 Jan. 43/2 A funny, ingeniously unsettling tribute to the splatterific teen horror films of the '80s.
1999 Linedancer Jan. 29/2 A samba-licious, rhumba-tastic, mambo-riffic party stonker of an album.
2002 Times 18 Jan. ii. 11/1 ITV's slapperific Footballers' Wives.
2009 Texas Monthly (Nexis) Feb. 52 All grown up, with bee-stung lips, a yoga-rific body,..and a reputation as one of the finest assassins around.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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