pied-piping
/ˌpʌɪdˈpʌɪpɪŋ/Linguistics
noun
The placing of a preposition immediately before a relative or interrogative pronoun, rather than later in the clause.
- E.g. ‘To whom are you talking?’ as opposed to ‘Whom are you talking to?’..
Origin
1960s. From pied + piping, after Pied Piper, with allusion to the way in which the charmed rats closely followed the piper in the story.
- well-stuffed
- well-suited
- well-sung
- well-supplied
- well supported
- well-sustained
- well sweep
- well-swelled
- well-swollen
- well-tailored
- well taken
- well-tamed
- well-tanned
- well-tasted
- well-taught
- well-taxed
- well tempered
- well-tended
- well-thewed
- well-thinking
- well thought of
- well-thought-on
- well thought out
- well-thriven
- well thumbed