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af·fri·cate | \ ˈa-fri-kət 
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\Definition of affricate
: a stop and its immediately following release into a fricative that are considered to constitute a single phoneme (such as the \t\ and \sh\ of \ch\ in choose)
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affricative \ a-ˈfri-kə-tiv , ə- \ noun or adjective
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The first known use of affricate was in 1876
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