Reduplication
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The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified),with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying themeaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thusadded; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
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A linguistic term for repeating a word twice. Generally emphasizes the duplicated word, but American slang uses it to indicate that the word is being used in its truest or most specialized sense.
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