some _-ster_ items (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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I believe Rob Schneider's "making copies" character on Saturday Night
Live did this regularly (1989-1992).

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> In the early '80s I noted that "-ster" was being used humorously to
> create nonce nicknames based on one's given name.  HDAS III should
> have exx.
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> For example, David Barnhart might be referred to as "the Davester."
> (Not that he  necessarily was.)  Or addressed as "Davester," though I
> think direct address was less common.
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> It works best with monosyllabic names.
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> It's still around, AFAIK.
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> JL
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> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
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> > On Jan 30, 2012, at 6:30 PM, David Barnhart wrote:
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> >> Not all of these are new; neither are they all negative:
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> >> dirty-trickster...
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> > nice, but start with Michael Quinion's entry:
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> > http://www.affixes.org/s/-ster.html
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> > arnold
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