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sesquipedalian


  • n  a very long word (a foot and a half long)
  • s  given to the overuse of long words
    sesquipedalian orators
    this sesquipedalian way of saying one has no money
  • s  (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables
    sesquipedalian technical terms

  • The hippopotamus, which looks like its sesquipedalian name, is actually so called because a Greek traveler thought it resembled a "horse of the river.
  • A new school with a sesquipedalian name this week sent its first alumnus to work in the State Department.
  • The range of his sesquipedalian verbal achievements spread from masterly Johnsonian periods on the occasion of "Remarks of Senator Ashurst on the Steamship President Grant on .

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