Nounjective?

[Garson O'Toole]

Here are two examples of nounjective. The date stamp on the first is
from the sciforums.com website, and I do not know about its
reliability. There is an earlier match in 2004 in the Google Groups
indexer but the context was not clear to me.

sciforums.com Why Bush&Cheney can not destroy Clarke
Don Hakman
03-29-04, 11:58 AM

The bottom line message being screamed is that Clarke is not likeable.
His name is hardly ever used without adjectives like arrogant,
selfish, whining, inconsistent liar and now the 'nounjective' Judas.
http://www.sciforums.com/Why-Bush-Cheney-can-not-destroy-Clarke-t-34334.html


Newsgroups: sci.lang.translation
From: John Woodgate <j... at jmwa.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:28:18 +0000
Local: Fri, Feb 10 2006 4:28 am
Subject: Re: Eng. to French: "Submit forms"

It's another example of a 'nounjective' - noun used as adjective. I
would say 'via submission forms', which still has a nounjective but I
think it's acceptable, and certainly easier to understand.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.lang.translation/msg/96dd533779505545



On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Michael Quinion
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> Laurence Horn wrote:
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>> and why "substantive" wasn't good enough for the purpose
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> The term implies a noun being used as an adjective, frequently as a
> dismissive epithet. This is the example I came across that provoked my
> enquiry (there are numerous others online but none that I can find in
> printed works):
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> 2011 Observer (London) 21 Aug. (New Review section) 25/1 Now the first
> parts of the first phase of its makeover by the Mancunian developers Urban
> Splash, to whom the nounjective `hipster´ tends to attach itself, is
> nearly complete.
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