crutch word
nounEtymology
From crutch + word.
Definitions
A word that becomes a filler in conversation, or is used for verbal emphasis, without…
A word that becomes a filler in conversation, or is used for verbal emphasis, without adding any meaning to an utterance.
- 2012 Jen Doll, ""A Literal Epidemic of Crutch Words," The Atlantic, 13 September 2012. Of course, we didn't list all the crutch words, because it appears we're living in a crutch word epidemic.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for crutch word. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA