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