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+
-hood
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nounhood
(
uncountable
)
The quality of being a
noun
.
2009
August 9, Ben Zimmer, “How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection”, in
New York Times
[1]
:
It made occasional forays into
nounhood
, in fixed expressions like without fail and no-fail.
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proper nounhood