Meanings (ES + gloss)
expletivo
Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
No one entered more fully than Shakespeare into the character of this species of poetry, which admits of no expletive imagery, no merely ornamental line.
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
expletivo
A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
expletivo
A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning (such as fuckin in "there's no fuckin way he's gonna get away with it").
Word forms