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Sesquipedalia

noun
1.
A very long word (a foot and a half long).  Synonym: sesquipedalian.





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"Sesquipedalia" Quotes from Famous Books



... plerumque dolet Sermone pedestri, Telephus et Peleus, cum pauper et exul uterque, Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba, Si curat cor Spectantis ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele


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