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单词 -upper
释义

-uppercomb. form

Primary stress is usually attracted to the first syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: up adv.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < up adv.1 + -er suffix1.Formations are found from the early 20th cent., apparently earliest in picker-upper n.
Forming rhyming compounds based on phrasal verbs with up adv.1, with the agent noun corresponding to the verb as the first element, as fixer-upper n., maker-upper n., picker-upper n., etc.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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