expletive

  1. Adjective.  Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
  2. Adjective.  Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
  3. Noun.  A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
  4. Noun.  (linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
  5. Noun.  (linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning.

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