Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 17 стр.

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shapeless, blind, nameless face (R.Price). 11. So-so purposeless now (A.Christie).
12. Nothing could prevent it. The world seemed to be skyless – just the Earth and
the Space (M.Bathman). 13. Lord Emsworth was so acutely spectacleless, Ruber
Baxter, his secretary, so pronouncedly spectacled (P.G.Wodehouse). 14. Your ideal
skin. See it. Feel it. Have it. Poreless. Lineless. Balanced. Smooth. (ELLE,
December, 2001).


                                    Suffix “ - y” .
Exercise. Look at the derivatives with the suffix “-y”. Which of them are used
metasemiotically? Translate them.
1. “What’s after you?” she said. “You’re as jumpy as a goat.” He found he was
unable to speak (R.Dahl). 2. A bottle of this smelly purple mixture always stood on
the shelf above the sink in the bathroom alongside all the toothbrushes, and a very
vigorous scalp massage with oil of violets took place daily after shaving was
completed (Ibid.). 3. “Who was there? The usual mess, of course. Baldies, hairies,
collapsed faces, fallen women, who would you think?” (B.Johnson). 4. For about a
whole month, at least, whenever anybody said anything that sounded campusy and
phony, or that smelled to high heaven of ego or something like that, I at least kept
quiet about it (J.D.Salinger). 5. ” Thank you,” says William. “Or righty,” says
Gruner, then he climbs back into the bus … (R.Bradbury). 6. I parked the tractor in
the tree’s shade, on grass saturated with wormy spicy fruit (J.Updike). 7. And
Sophie laughed her deep fruity Fraulein’s laugh, showed her fine white teeth and
her dimples, and said: “You want some person to play mistress of the house
sometimes, not so?” (D.Lessing). 8. She sat at one empty table waiting for service,
and in her restlessness began to eat the bits of damp ribbony lettuce that served as
decoration on the plate of sandwiches… that the previous occupant had devoured
(E.O’Brien). 9. She seemed slimmer; her skin had the papery look of the recently
awakened and her slightly twisted lips seemed amused (J.Updike). 10. “It’s a bit
nippy tonight” (J.D.Salinger). 11. “I won’t go on, spinning it out word for word. In
any case not many more passed before she snatched the book out of my hands.”
“You booky bastard,” she screamed (A.Sillitoe). 12. … there were two or three
worth looking at, the flashy young Jewessy type, at Chase & Cohen’s Carnival
Novelties place at the end. Any one of this girls, walking into Twigg &
Dersingham’s , would have lit up the place for him, and the day’s routine would
have become an adventure (J.Priestly). 13. A small victory or two would help her
tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy (R.Dahl). 14. Matilda
liked her because she was gutsy and adventurous (Ibid.). 15. She took a deep
breath as she laid her hand on the table. “Well, at least you aren’t picky, Jin.”
(N.Sparks). 15. She was available for the second date, though … told her friends
he was creepy (E.Adler). 16. The father in particular became less cocky and
unbearable for several days after receiving a dose of Matilda’s magic medicine
(R.Dahl). 17.“We know that,” Mrs. Wormwood said, ratty about missing her
programme (Ibid.). 18. That’s exactly what’s bothering me so. Just because I’m
choosy about what I want in this case, enlightenment, or peace, instead of money