Expletivum — meaning in English
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English meaning
- expletive adj Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
Senses
Expletivum is used for these senses in English:
- expletive (linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
expletive — full definition
- adj Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
- adj Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).