66 Jen Hay and Margaret Maclagan
Bendon is bra-ing up the country.
Sarah decided not to buy the bikini, because it looked a little bra-ish.
Susan put her bra in the wash.
Sarah decided not to buy the bikini, because it looked a little too bra-y.
Bendon plans to completely bra-ize New Zealand
My À atmate belongs to a weird club called “the claws,” and their speech is unintel-
ligible to me—they just speak claw-ese all the time.
My À atmate stuffs animals, and his job is to claw-ify the leopards.
My À atmate belongs to a weird club called “the claws,” and their speech is just full of
weird claw-isms.
The cat walked up to the cushion and started clawing it.
Be careful of the cat, because she can be fairly claw-ish.
The cat caught a claw in the cushion.
Be careful of the cat, because she can be fairly claw-y.
My À atmate stuffs animals, and his job is to claw-ize the leopards.
Sue is always saying “do this” and “do that”—her speech is just full of Ma-ese.
Sue has always been just like Ma, and now she’s trying to Ma-ify our house.
Sue is always saying “do this” and “do that”—her speech is just full of Ma-isms.
Sue is decorating the house just like Ma would, she’s really Ma-ing the place up.
I thought about wearing fur, but that would be such a Ma-ish thing to do.
Sue went inside to get the bags, and left her Ma in the van.
I thought about wearing fur, but that would be such a Ma-y thing to do.
Sue has always been just like Ma, and now she’s trying to Ma-ize our house.
All teenagers these days are speaking Oprah-ese.
The broadcasters are trying to Oprah-ify television in New Zealand
My cousin always comes out with weird Oprah-isms
The bookstores are Oprah-ing up all their displays
The show was pretty Oprah-ish.
My cousin went to see Oprah in Chicago
The show was pretty Oprah-y.
The broadcasters are trying to Oprah-ize television in New Zealand
The plough marketing person is really boring, she just talks plough-ese all of the
time.
The plough manufacturing company plans to completely plough-ify farms in New
Zealand.
The plough marketing person is really boring, she is just full of plough-isms, and can’t
talk about anything else.
The farmer is out ploughing in the ¿ eld.
The machine is kind of a lawnmower, but is also kind of plough-ish.