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Example sentences for: abbreviation

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First, surf as a verb [1913] seems to be an abbreviation of the now obsolete surf-bathe [1906].
Nevertheless, NoLIta, as the area is disagreeably called (the abbreviation stands for North of Little Italy), has become a style incubator for the rest of the city, which means for the country, which means for the world.
The French adopted the habit as an intensifier of musculine nouns, proper and improper, and this too became mostly pejorative, as in mouchard sneak or informer (from mouche fly), and froussard coward (from frousse fright), and bastard , a trenchant abbreviation of fils de bast pack-saddle child.
It is unlikely to fail to play upon the suspicions of such a one that the composition of his most highly esteemed should be that most lately converted into a wan cinematic confection of fretsome abbreviation.
This article also provided a significant antedating for N.F.G. no fucking good, an abbreviation accidentally omitted from The F-Word but included in the book's parent work with a first cite from 1977.