Perjorative suffix

[nq:1]poetaster = poet + aster where aster is an obscure (to me) perjorative suffix. What are some other perjorative suffixes?[/nq]
'pejorative'
Robert

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[nq:1]poetaster = poet + aster where aster is an obscure (to me) perjorative suffix. What are some other perjorative suffixes?[/nq]
I make occasional attempts to further the spread of this suffix, but I'm usually too kind-hearted to describe another person, however inept, as a programmeraster (not that there haven't been opportunities)...I'd love to see it applied s

[nq:1]poetaster = poet + aster where aster is an obscure (to me) perjorative suffix. What are some other perjorative suffixes?[/nq]
Same formation as disaster and alabaster ...
Anyroad up - other suffixes perjorativizing the word to which they are parasitisized ...
-ish
-wannabe
-alike
-oholic
-bushy

John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:2]poetaster = poet + aster where aster is an obscure (to me) perjorative suffix. What are some other perjorative suffixes?[/nq]
[nq:1]Same formation as disaster and alabaster ... Anyroad up - other suffixes perjorativizing the word to which they are parasitisized ... -ish -wannabe -alike -oholic -bushy[/nq]
Do you think tomcat will take the hint?
OT:
"Anyroad up"?
I said "o

[nq:2]poetaster = poet + aster where aster is an obscure (to me) perjorative suffix. What are some other perjorative suffixes?[/nq]
[nq:1]Same formation as disaster and alabaster ... Anyroad up - other suffixes perjorativizing the word to which they are parasitisized ... -ish -wannabe -alike -oholic -bushy[/nq]
-ite
-ling

Ross Howard

[nq:2]Same formation as disaster and alabaster ... Anyroad up - ... which they are parasitisized ... -ish -wannabe -alike -oholic -bushy[/nq]
[nq:1]-ite -ling[/nq]
-ette
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[nq:2]Same formation as disaster and alabaster ... Anyroad up - ... which they are parasitisized ... -ish -wannabe -alike -oholic -bushy[/nq]
[nq:1]Do you think tomcat will take the hint?[/nq]
Is to laugh, no?
[nq:1]OT: "Anyroad up"? I said "outtatheroad" as a child, and find my brother still says it, while I have moved ... continuer, but never add the "up". Is that addition to "anyroa

[nq:1]-ette[/nq]
The suffix "-ard" (derived, by way of French, from Old High German "-hart," used in proper names) when it is people which are being referred to, so that it is pejorative in "drunkard" and "dullard," but not in "placard" and "tankard."

Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
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[nq:1]The suffix "-ard" (derived, by way of French, from Old High German "-hart," used in proper names) when it is people which are being referred to, so that it is pejorative in "drunkard" and "dullard," but not in "placard" and "tankard."[/nq]
Grognard and Communard (Somerville variety) are close calls.
John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:2]The suffix "-ard" (derived, by way of French, from Old ... in "drunkard" and "dullard," but not in "placard" and "tankard."[/nq]
[nq:1]Grognard and Communard (Somerville variety) are close calls.[/nq]
Both would appear to be worthy of the list of exceptions. First, about "grognard":
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