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pig Latin

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A type of wordplay in which (English) words are altered by moving the onset consonants of a word to the end and appending -ay [eɪ̯], except when the word begins with a vowel, in which case -way [weɪ̯] is suffixed with no leading phonetic change.

Other meanings

2. noun

Alternative letter-case form of pig Latin.

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