单词 | expletive |
释义 | expletive/ɪkˈspliːtɪv / /ɛkˈspliːtɪv/noun 1An oath or swear word: he was greeted by a stream of expletives...
Synonyms swear word, oath, curse, obscenity, profanity, epithet, imprecation, four-letter word, exclamation; (expletives) bad language, foul language, strong language, swearing informal dirty word North American informal cuss word, cuss 2 Grammar A word or phrase used to fill out a sentence or a line of verse without adding to the sense.I think people don't use ‘it’ for exactly that reason Todd - it's so often an expletive or a dummy pronoun that it would get confusing....
Synonyms filler, fill-in, stopgap, meaningless word/phrase, redundant word/phrase, superfluous word/phrase, unnecessary word/phrase adjective Grammar (Of a word or phrase) serving to fill out a sentence or line of verse.Icelandic takes the non-referential property of quasi-argumental null subjects as basic, therefore quasi-argumental null subjects in the language can be interpreted as basically expletive....
OriginLate Middle English (as an adjective): from late Latin expletivus, from explere 'fill out', from ex- 'out' + plere 'fill'. The noun sense 'word used merely to fill out a sentence' (early 17th century) was applied specifically to a swear word in the early 19th century.
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