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• -atory

  a combination of -ate1. and -ory1. or -ory2 , used infrequently as an independent suffix with the same senses as -ory1. and -ory2 : affirmatory; observatory . -atory suffix of, relating to, characterized by, or serving to circulatory, exploratory, migratory, explanatory word origin from latin -ātōrius; see -ate1, -ory²

• -bacter

  a combining form with the meaning “rod,” used primarily in biology to form generic names of bacteria: aerobacter; arthrobacter.

• -ball

  -ball combining word a person who is obnoxious or strange because of what is indicated: oddball/ goofball/ dirtball/ dizzball/ sleazeball baseball of a specified sort: billyball/ greedball [1970s+; first sense probably fr 1930s screwball, ”eccentric person,” fr late 1920s name of a baseball pitch, suggesting screwy, ”crazy, eccentric”; second sense fr the kind of baseball […]

• -basher

  -basher combining word a person who har-sses or beats the person or item indicated: j-pan-basher/ f-g-basher/ honkybasher (1880s+ british)

• -bashing

  combining form, combining form (informal) indicating a malicious attack on members of a particular group queer-bashing, union-bashing indicating any of various other activities bible-bashing, spud-bashing, square-bashing derived forms -basher, combining_form:in_noun:countable -bashing combining word hating and attacking what or who is indicated: bush-bashing/ f-ggot-bashing/ geezer-bashing/ gringo-bashing/ paki-bashing (esp since late 1950s+)

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