bahuvrihi

Meaning

Noun

• bluestocking — A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman
  
• lowlife — An untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person.
  
• A type of nominal compound in which the first part modifies the second and neither part alone conveys the intended meaning.

Origin

• Transliteration of Sanskrit बहुव्रीहि, itself an example of a bahuvrihi.