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Sesquipedalian   Listen
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Sesquipedalian, Sesquipedal  adj.  Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; sometimes humorously applied to long words.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sesquipedalian" Quotes from Famous Books



... and saw; and, presently, he returned. Peter is an excellent servant; but the fashion of his speech, even when conveying the most trivial information, is slightly sesquipedalian. He would have made a capital cabinet minister at question time,—he wraps up the smallest petitions of meaning in ...
— The Beetle - A Mystery • Richard Marsh



Words linked to "Sesquipedalian" :   polysyllabic word, pretentious, sesquipedality, long



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