But what turned comfort into an attributive noun modifying food?

Of all the Slavic languages, Russian uses the attributive nouns the most.

Although the word is often used as an attributive noun - modifying tactics and warfare - I had never heard it hit the dust.

Should you use an apostrophe after attributive nouns in phrases like carpenters union and taxpayers meeting?

Thus has core established itself as the year's hottest attributive noun, ousting yesteryear's executive summary and killer whale.

Noun adjunct (also referred to as attributive noun)

While we’re in this examination of the many meanings of tank, we come across its use as an attributive noun in fashion’s tank top.

Attributive noun phrases, as well as other phrases used as adjectives, should be hyphenated.

Lexicographers who have dutifully tracked the proliferation of body as an attributive noun in our body-conscious world must now come to terms with body wash.

Summit is no longer merely an attributive noun modifying meeting or conference; usage over 50 years has turned the modifier into that top-level conclave itself.

Here, nylon is an attributive noun bound to carpeting; you would not say nylon, plush carpeting.

Note that the spelling of the attributive noun gangsta, modifying another noun, rap, differs from gangster.

In its current usage, the elided word gotcha is an attributive noun modifying journalism or politics or, alliteratively, gang.

"The verb fly is being used as an attributive noun modifying zone , in a type of functional shift or perhaps a rare grammatical pattern.

Sources elsewhere tell me that the adjective crunchy applied to health-conscious, environmentally correct types is being overtaken by the attributive noun granola.

The love of money may or may not be the root of all evil, but what is the root of money as an attributive noun?

In the Dr. Scholl misusage, callus - with a u, no o - is an attributive noun modifying removers.

To those hunting for bargains, street becomes an attributive noun modifying price, meaning "what it actually is selling for, no matter what the price tag says."

In those cases, the nouns (attorney, court, cherry) are followed by their modifiers, the adjectives (general, martial and the attributive noun acting as an adjective, jubilee).

Contrary to New York Times style that prefers female as the modifier, I see no reason that woman should not be used as an attributive noun.

In a sense, the current generation of boomers is participating in a cohort-wide core dump, downloading the word core as an attributive noun on all our heads.

Its confident, with-it moniker became the driving force behind the recent popularization of the phrase with the former compound adjective, now an attributive noun: Boldface Names.

Modifiers, such as adjectives, preadjectivals, adverbials and attributive nouns all occur before the head which they modify (including possessive nouns marked with -pa).

O.K.; heather, as an attributive noun modifying a color, does not mean "purplish pink," but means "flecked, speckled, mottled, varicolored, two-toned."