spowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Pseudoword, coined ex nihilo by American psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason in the 1950s as a word that children taking the test would not have heard before. Probably influenced by spout

動詞

spow (third-person singular simple present spows, present participle spowing, simple past and past participle spowed)

1. (linguistics) An imaginary action resembling the headcarrying of a teapot, used in the Wug Test to investigate the acquisition of the past participle form in English-speaking children.

   this is a man who knows how to spow