monosyllable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]monosyllable (plural monosyllables)
- A word of one syllable.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A euphemism for the word cunt
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- duosyllable
- trisyllable
- tetrasyllable
- pentasyllable
- sexisyllable
- heptasyllable
- octosyllable
- enneasyllable
- decasyllable
- endecasyllable
- dodecasyllable
- polysyllable
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a word of one syllable
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References
[edit]- 1811, Lexicon Balatronicum: Monosyllable, a woman's commodity.