Example sentences for: augmentative

How can you use “augmentative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 16. multy--an augmentative word, empty of meaning: like saying goddamn or bloody or some other expletive.

  • Inflating him was as simple as tacking the augmentative suffixes -one or -oni --as in Giacomoni --to the root name or its variation to get big James.

  • No sense of irony is needed to appreciate the name Malfatto (male badly, fatto made, put together), however, or the names Gobbi ( gobbo hunchback), Porcelli (piglets), Boccioni (bocca mouth plus the augmentative suffix, yielding big mouth), Capostagno (capo head, stagno tin), Sozzi (from the Sicilian sozzu filthy), or Moccio (snot or slime).


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