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  a suffix of nouns that refer, usually derogatorily, to persons who support or are concerned or -ssociated with a particular political cause or group, cultural att-tude, or the like: beatnik, filmnik; no-goodnik; peacenik. -nik suffix denoting a person -ssociated with a specified state, belief, or quality beatnik, refusenik word origin c20: from russian -nik, as […]

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  a combining form appearing in loanwords from greek, where it meant “thought”: paranoia.

• -nomy

  a combining form of greek origin meaning “distribution,” “arrangement,” “management,”: astronomy; economy; taxonomy. -nomy combining form indicating a science or the laws governing a certain field of knowledge agronomy, economy derived forms -nomic, combining_form:in_adjective word origin from greek -nomia law; related to nemein to distribute, control

• -nut

  -nut combining word a devotee or energetic pract-tioner of what is indicated; buff, freak: when one football nut writes a book/ but he’s not just a word nut (1930s+)

• -o

  a suffix occurring as the final element in informal shortenings of nouns (ammo; combo; condo; limo; promo); -o, also forms nouns, usually derogatory, for persons or things exemplifying or -ssociated with that specified by the base noun or adjective (cheapo; pinko; sicko; weirdo; wino). a suffix occurring in colloquial noun or adjective derivatives, usually grammatically […]

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