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{ "etymology_text": "Synchronically, by surface analysis, as if putative *fungo- + -phile, in morphologic parallel with fungiphile as fungi- + -phile; *fungo- is nonstandard, but a putative assertion of it is predictable as something that will periodically arise naturally among speakers by apparent analogy with how hundreds of other ISV combining forms containing o are formed (compare -o-, and compare also lexophile); diachronically, the word fungophile has been independently re-created (and googled) many times by individual speakers and writers, some of whom have used it in capitalized proper noun form to name their own mycophilic endeavors (e.g., as a screenname, website title, or otherwise); but its common noun sense is now incontrovertibly attested many times over, albeit informal and nonstandard.", "forms": [ { "form": "fungophiles", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "fungophile (plural fungophiles)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "fungiphile" } ], "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of fungiphile" ], "id": "en-fungophile-en-noun-kgUkKWxa", "links": [ [ "fungiphile", "fungiphile#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of fungiphile" ], "related": [ { "word": "fungophobia" } ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative", "informal", "nonstandard" ] } ], "word": "fungophile" }
{ "etymology_text": "Synchronically, by surface analysis, as if putative *fungo- + -phile, in morphologic parallel with fungiphile as fungi- + -phile; *fungo- is nonstandard, but a putative assertion of it is predictable as something that will periodically arise naturally among speakers by apparent analogy with how hundreds of other ISV combining forms containing o are formed (compare -o-, and compare also lexophile); diachronically, the word fungophile has been independently re-created (and googled) many times by individual speakers and writers, some of whom have used it in capitalized proper noun form to name their own mycophilic endeavors (e.g., as a screenname, website title, or otherwise); but its common noun sense is now incontrovertibly attested many times over, albeit informal and nonstandard.", "forms": [ { "form": "fungophiles", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "fungophile (plural fungophiles)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "fungophobia" } ], "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "fungiphile" } ], "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English informal terms", "English lemmas", "English nonstandard terms", "English nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of fungiphile" ], "links": [ [ "fungiphile", "fungiphile#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of fungiphile" ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative", "informal", "nonstandard" ] } ], "word": "fungophile" }
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