plyg

English

Etymology

From polygamist, in reference to the Mormon practice (which has been discontinued by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) of polygamy (plural marriage).

Noun

plyg (plural plygs)

  1. (slang, offensive) A fundamentalist Mormon.
    Members of the fundamentalist plyg movement are "Mormon" but are not LDS.
    The schoolgirl drew stares from outsiders because of her long pastel dress and upswept hairdo, and her brother once got into a fistfight with a group of Gentile and LDS boys who had been taunting him and his sister, calling them "plygs".

Welsh

Etymology

Back formation from plygu (“to bend; to fold, to crease”).

Noun

plyg m (plural plygion)

  1. bend, curve
  2. fold, crease

Derived terms

  • plygell (“folder”)

Adjective

plyg (feminine singular plyg, plural plyg, equative cyn plyg, comparative mwy plyg, superlative mwyaf plyg)

  1. bent
  2. folded, creased

Derived terms

  • allblyg (“extroverted”)
  • deublyg (“double, dual, twofold”)
  • dyblyg (“doubled, duplicated”)
  • echblyg (“explicit”)
  • hyblyg (“flexible, pliable”)
  • mewnblyg (“introverted”)
  • triphlyg (“triple, threefold”)
  • ymhlŷg (“bent, folded”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
plyg blyg mhlyg phlyg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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