ejective
About 0.02 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Serving to eject, or characterised by ejection.
- noun A nonpulmonic consonant formed by squeezing air trapped between the glottis and an articulator further forward, and releasing it suddenly.
Similar words
ejaculatory expulsionary exhalative eructative emissive exocytotic ebullitive egestive evocatory excretory
Often followed by
stops consciousness to and stop consonants facts affricate fricatives
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