Skint-tastic

What is Skint-tastic?

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A compound of the word skint, adjective, and an artificial suffix -tastic, as used in the word fantasticwhich has a Greek root. Linguists call this kind of phenomenon a back formation. Cf. pea from pease.

Possibly influenced by the tendency to emphasise the word fantasticin spoken English by pausing after the first syllable.

"I can't come out for a drink this evening as I'm skint-tastic. I don't get paid until next week."

See skint, broke, poor, rich
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