Word: shortening
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: shor
te
ning
Definition: Fat that is solid at room temperature, such as margarine or lard (not usually used of butter), used to make shortcrust pastry.
Morphemes:
Affix: short
Language: en
PoS: Adjective
Meaning: Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of a large quantity of fat.
Affix: -en
Language: en
Meaning: inchoative
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.