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Stephenlearner Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Squirrel scurried back to his hidey-hole in the tree.

Hi,

In my son's bedtime story book, I found such sentences:
Squirrel scurried back to his hidey-hole in the tree.
"A Christmas snowman! Seeing you makes me feel all happy and Christmas-y inside".
There are other sentences which contain a word ending in y.

I wonder what they are intended to mean. Do they only appear in children's story book?

Thanks.
  

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Hi, Adding -y a common and informal way of forming adjectives, and often other words, in a child-like way. A very obvious example is that small children say 'Dadd y ' and older children and adults say 'Dad'. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, Adding -y a common and informal way of forming adjectives, and often other words, in a child-like way.
  • A very obvious example is that small children say 'Dadd y ' and older children and adults say 'Dad'.
  • Clive
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Hi,

Adding -y a common and informal way of forming adjectives, and often other words, in a child-like way.

A very obvious example is that small children say 'Daddy' and older children and adults
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OK. Thanks.
So hidey-hole is a combination of an adjective + a noun.
Normal way should be hiding hole?

Is "y" usually added to a noun and verb?
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Hi,

That's the general idea. But there are no real rules at all about such child talk.Small children often just say what they feel like saying. And we often reply in the same way.


Clive
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