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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Man-pleaser.*
*Or is it "manpleaser" (all one word)? Or "man pleaser" (two words, no hyphen)? dtb, help!
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Interesting question, that...
But, since you asked (and apologies for my tardy reply -- damn work really gets in the way of my keeping up with the goings-on around here!!):
Noun-plus-noun (as we have here) is an open compound (similar to crowd pleaser). However, if modified slightly to noun-plus-gerund or noun-plus-adjective, it would be hyphenated (man-pleasing) when the compound precedes a noun it modifies (for example, "man-pleasing tendencies"). [The debate rages on as to whether such compounds should be open or hyphenated when they
follow the noun they modify. Guess which position I advocate...!]
