Delexical (adj)
de-leks-ik-al
(of a verb) having little or no meaning in its own right, for example ‘take’ in take a photograph.
1980s
Example sentences
“Phrasal verbs are a quirk of the language, but these delexical words have no real meaning in their literal sense.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
