Etymograph

English

Frankenbite

From Franken- + bite, where bite refers to a sound bite.

Formed from franken- + bite

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- ‘split’

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Proto-Germanic *bītaną

Proto-West Germanic *bītan ‘to bite’

Old English bītan

Middle English biten ‘to bite’

English bite

Today it means

noun An audio clip on reality TV that appears to be a single, contiguous interview line, but is in fact built from several disparate recorded audio clips edited together.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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