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Hyphenated   Listen
adjective
Hyphenated  adj.  United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hyphenated" Quotes from Famous Books



... production on any stage. It was a war play called "The Hyphen," by Justus Miles Forman, the novelist. The scenes were laid in Pennsylvania, and the story dealt with the various attempts to unsettle the loyalty of German-Americans through secret agencies. The whole problem of the hyphenated citizen, which had complicated the American position in the great war, was ...
— Charles Frohman: Manager and Man • Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

... since that Leith Clay-Randolph (note the hyphenated surname) knocked at the back door of Idlewild and melted the heart of Gunda. Now Gunda was cold as her Norway hills, though in her least frigid moods she was capable of permitting especially nice-looking tramps to sit on the back stoop and devour ...
— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London

... concrete. The man was a German-American, and already on Jimmie's list of "suspects." That for the use of the German artillery he was preparing a concrete bed for a siege gun was only too evident. But closer investigation proved that the concrete was only two inches thick. And the hyphenated one explained that the basin was built over a spring, in the waters of which he planned to erect a fountain and raise goldfish. It was a bitter blow. Jimmie became discouraged. Meeting Judge Van Vorst one day in the road he told him his troubles. The young ...
— The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys • Richard Harding Davis



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