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)
- (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)
- bend, curve
- fold, crease
Derived terms
- plygell (“folder”)
Adjective
plyg (feminine singular plyg, plural plyg, equative cyn plyg, comparative mwy plyg, superlative mwyaf plyg)
- bent
- 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| plyg | blyg | mhlyg | phlyg |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||