noun adjunct

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a noun that occurs before and modifies another noun, as toy in toy store or tour in tour group.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Also called attributive noun, noun premodifier .

First recorded in 1960–65

She appeared at his side, impish smile in place, dutiful, fragrantly rather than ferociously sexy, and—frustratingly—an adjunct.
How Can Katie Holmes Escape Tom Cruise—and ‘Dawson’s Creek’?|Tim Teeman|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At first Wales and Sanger conceived of Wikipedia merely as an adjunct to Nupedia, sort of like a feeder product or farm team.
You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story|Walter Isaacson|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The proper noun when spoken can be confused for the common noun.
The Zen of Yo|Dale Eisinger|August 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The noun “mechanicals” refers to any physical reproduction of a composed and performed work—that is, “canned music.”
Van Dyke Parks on How Songwriters Are Getting Screwed in the Digital Age|Van Dyke Parks|June 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“The Great Depression” as a proper noun only came into popular use in the 1950s, long after the event was over.
Our Ruling Ideology Is Denial|Eugene Linden|May 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The arm in these childish drawings early develops the interesting adjunct of a hand.
Children's Ways|James Sully
I can find no authority for making it a collective noun, as Bell suggests.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
This often becomes an abstract feminine noun, answering to the French termination -ée; armée in Mistral's language isPg 56 armado.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
As an adjunct of the policy of the deterrent workhouse for the able-bodied, we have to note the coming-in of compulsory detection.
English Poor Law Policy|Sidney Webb
On the other hand, when the words “a black” are heard, the mind constructs no image; it waits until the noun modified is spoken.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster