Like BrE's apparently idiosyncratic "drink-driving", does English have any other hyphenated constructions of the form "noun-verb"? [closed]
As in title. I can think of many hyphenated constructions of other forms, such as
- noun-adjective (e.g. nut-safe, child-friendly, community-driven)
- adjective-verb (e.g. low-flying),
- adverb-verb (e.g. well-made), and
- adjective-verb (e.g. ready-made),
but cannot think of any others of the form noun-verb. A discussion arose in this Reddit thread, which prompted this question.
There are. For example, punch-pulling, life-threatening or pocket-picking. In these examples, the noun is the direct object of the verb. The particularity of drink-driving is that drink is describing the action of the verb drive, it is not its direct object. So it may be unique in this sense.
Here is a link where you can find plenty of more examples: wordnik.
PS: Thanks to a comment I must make clear that: the noun cannot be the object in the compound, but by meaning, in a sentence it can be. It is the punch that is pulled, the life that is threatened etc., but the drink cannot be driven.