phememe
/ˈfiːmiːm/Linguistics. Now rare
noun
Leonard Bloomfield's name for: the smallest linguistic unit.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), linguist. From pheme + -eme.
- Pullman
- Pullman case
- Pullman, George Mortimer
- Pullmanize
- Pullman, Philip
- Pullo
- pull-off
- pull-on
- pull oneself together
- pull one's head in
- pull (one's) punches
- pull one's socks up
- pull one's weight
- pull (or bring) a rabbit out of the (or a) hat
- pull (or drag) oneself up by one's (own) bootstraps
- pullorum
- pull (or yank) someone's chain
- pull out
- pull out all the stops
- pull over
- pullover
- pullovered
- pull-quote
- pull rank
- pull round