English words for 'Alternative spelling of back-formation.'
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noun
- Synonym of backronym.
- A term which is used in an anachronistic way, by referring to something in a way that is appropriate only for a former or later time. A type of misnomer. Misnomers are not necessarily incorrect; for example, chalk for a chalkboard is normatively called chalk despite it not being made of chalk.
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noun
adv
adj
- (poker slang) Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
- (physics, by extension) Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
- With one's back facing that of somebody else.
- Sequential or consecutive.
- (of a house) Having a party wall at the rear.
- one after the other
noun
noun
- Synonym of backronym.
- A term which is used in an anachronistic way, by referring to something in a way that is appropriate only for a former or later time. A type of misnomer. Misnomers are not necessarily incorrect; for example, chalk for a chalkboard is normatively called chalk despite it not being made of chalk.
verb
noun
adv
adj
- (poker slang) Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
- (physics, by extension) Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
- With one's back facing that of somebody else.
- Sequential or consecutive.
- (of a house) Having a party wall at the rear.
- one after the other