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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
tmesis
tme·sis 7 [tmesis tmeses] BrE [ˈtmiːsɪs] NAmE [ˈtmiːsɪs] noun uncountable, countable (pl. tme·sesBrE [ˈtmiːsiːz] ; NAmE [ˈtmiːsiːz] )(linguistics)
the use of a word or words in the middle of another word, for example ‘abso-bloody-lutely’
Word Origin:
mid 16th cent.: from Greek tmēsis ‘cutting’, from temnein ‘to cut’.
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