sluicing

English

Etymology

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

Verb

sluicing

  1. present participle and gerund of sluice

Noun

Examples
  • I like him, but I don't know why.

sluicing (countable and uncountable, plural sluicings)

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

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