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shaukat mahmood

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Please explain whether the plural nouns can be formed from words such as 'dirties' from dirty;'naughties' from naughty;'directees' from direct,etc.

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Shaukat Mahmood.
 
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Dirty, naughty, direct are adjectives.

People do coin words in this way, but they do not in general become accepted.
 
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