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multihyphenate

noun

Etymology

From multi- + hyphenate.

  1. derived from ὑφέν
  2. formed as hyphenate — “hyphen + -ate”
  3. prefixed as multihyphenate — “multi + hyphenate”

Definitions

  1. A person with a hyphenated profession e.g. singer-songwriter, actor-director, but…

    A person with a hyphenated profession e.g. singer-songwriter, actor-director, but especially a person with several such roles.

    • He’d also submitted the first proposals for a collaboration with his fellow Nordic multihyphenate Björk, a supersize restaging of her album “Medúlla.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for multihyphenate. 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