Aesop-like
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
Aesop-like (comparative more Aesop-like, superlative most Aesop-like)
- Resembling an Aesop's fable or moral.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 158:
- As regards the map, this was the beginning of an Aesop-like fable - 'How the Underground lines got their colours' - because they were all given a colour, although not the 'right' ones from today's perspective.
Usage notes edit
- Aesop-like is several times more common than Aesoplike in print.[1] GPO manual favors using a hyphen with words ending in -like when the first element is a proper name.[2]
Alternative forms edit
- Aesoplike (less common)
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ (Aesoplike*6),Aesop-like at Google Ngram Viewer
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov