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A word's surprise houseguest, crashing the middle instead of knocking at the edges.
means A morpheme inserted inside a word rather than attached at its start or end.
from From Latin infigere, to fasten in — literally fixing something into the body of a word.
English rarityTrue infixes are vanishingly rare; English mostly bolts on edges.
Profane exampleAbso-bloomin-lutely is English's favorite sneaky infix.
Tagalog championFilipino languages infix freely to mark tense and focus.