What is the clipped word of soapcake?
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noun. a word formed by dropping one or more syllables from a longer word or phrase with no change in meaning, as deli from delicatessen or flu from influenza.
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Soap is the clipped word for soap cake. In case of linguistics, clipping is referred as the process of word formation that is created by reducing a word to one of the parts.
Clipping can also be termed as the "shortening" or “truncation”. According to Marchand, clippings cannot be termed as words according to the standard vocabulary of any language.
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