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Example sentences for: backword

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I enjoyed David Galef's definition of backword to mean the modifier added to a previously specific word which has been made generic by the advent of a new technology.
A bicycle is no longer just a bike; it may now be a ten-speed bike, a mountain bike (now tagged as an ATB , or `allterrain bike'), or a stationary bike (also known as an exercise bike ). The backword in the offing, already used by many, is road bike , though it usually means a ten-speed, which is now used as a noun.
We could also call mho a backword , but we are better off staying with the family of -onyms.
The advent of the digital computer , after the war, necessitated the modifying of the old term by the backword, analog , to distinguish it from the new digital computer.
The one risk in collecting backwords is that it does tend to make one feel like an antiquity, possibly deserving of a backword oneself.