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  -brat combining word designating a child raised in a stated environment: army brat/ opera brat/ navy brat/ faculty brat/ air force brat/ masako led a normal life—normal, that is, for a diplomatic brat with an ambitious father (1940s+)

• -browed

  adjective (in combination) having a brow or brows as specified dark-browed

• -bug

  -bug combining word a devotee or energetic pract-tioner of what is indicated: firebug/ money-bug/ hockey bug [1920s+; fr humorous or dialectal pr-nunciation of bulge]

• -bulia

  chiefly psychiatry. a combining form meaning “will,” used in the formation of compound words: abulia.

• -burger

  a combining form extracted from hamburger, occurring in compounds the initial element of which denotes a special garnish for a hamburger or a subst-tute ingredient for the meat patty: baconburger; cheeseburger; fishburger. -burger combining word a sandwich made with cooked portions of what is indicated: beefburger/ cheeseburger/ snakeburger [1930s+; the definition does not apply to […]

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