Once, many years ago, I learned the word that describes words that have other words inserted inside them, a la “Abso-frigging-lutely.” It seems that it also applied to exclamations out of place in a phrase, as in “animal friggin’ cookies.”
Anyone know what they’re called?
Paul Dickson in his book entitled “Words” calls them “sandwich words.” It is in Chapter 49, entitled “Word Words.”
Gilligan…neat! What other forms of tmesis are there? (I can’t believe I typed that right the first time!)
The generic term for something like this is an infix, a la prefix and suffix. Some languages use them regularly.
Thanks, G!
From that Web site, though, it looks like the word I want is just tmesis, and that dystmesis is reserved for those situations where the infixed word is in an unlikely place. The examples given are:
tmesis: unfreakingbelievable
dystmesis: unbefreakinglievable
What exactly “unlikely” means in this context is presumably up to the perceiver…
ok, then what is RI-goddamn-DICULOUS
what the hell is that then, My friend useses that word all the time. what is the name for that useage of a “Sanwich name”?
I think “Roylee w/ cheese”
Ah!
This explains who Cinderfuckinrella is!?
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