Delexical (adj)
de-lek-si-kal
(linguistic) (of a verb) having little or no meaning in its own right, for example take in take a photograph.
From Latin
Example sentences
“She offered to give her a hand, but the language barrier meant she didn’t understand the delexical verb and thought she as being given an actual hand.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
