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Vinony

sluicing

adjective

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: (linguistics): Coined by American linguist John R. Ross.

  1. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
  2. A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause.

verb

Etymology: (linguistics): Coined by American linguist John R. Ross.

  1. present participle and gerund of sluice