Aesop-like
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editAesop-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
editReferences
edit- ^ (Aesoplike*6),Aesop-like at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov