fore-clipping
Definition:
Creating a new word by removing letters from the beginning of an existing word.
Example:
(1) The word
fend
was coined from
defend
and
(2) the word
coon
was coined from
raccoon
.
a type of
:
clipping
see:
aphesis
|
back-clipping
|
for-and-aft-clipping
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