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Example sentences for: augmentative

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

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).
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.