no-freakin-kidding
Monday, May 14, 2007 at 08:46AM I am a bit of a word geek - I subscribe to the Webster word of the day, and I don't even mind publicly declaring that. I thought yesterday's word was very fitting for my little cyber-corner.
infix \IN-fiks\ noun
: a derivational or inflectional affix appearing in the body of a word
Did you know?
Like prefixes and suffixes, infixes are part of the general class of affixes ("sounds or letters attached to or inserted within a word to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form"). Infixes are relatively rare in English, but you can find them in the plural forms of some words. For example, "cupful," "spoonful," and "passerby" can be pluralized as "cupsful," "spoonsful," and "passersby," using "s" as an infix. Another example is the insertion of an (often offensive) intensifier into a word, as in "fan-freakin'-tastic."
Such whole-word insertions are sometimes called infixes.
Well, who-freakin-knew?
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