Definition of "affricative" []

• Of, relating to, or forming an affricate. (adjective)
• See affricate. (noun)

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• "Certainly I'd be very impressed by anyone who knew what an "affricative" was."
• "I haven't gone past the first page, but Rich's well-placed use there of the phrase "excessively affricative" does give me hope that it will live up to the promising blurbs from Gary Shteyngart ( "Here is a young writer who is not afraid to give literature a kick in the pants") and Stephen King ( "a novel brimming with brio"), and makes me, even more than the fake interview, want to keep reading."
• "These include:  Stopping: A fricative or affricative consonant is replaced by a stop consonant."