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Topic Options #69 - 03/14/00 07:19 PM Help with a word?! jmbodman stranger Registered: 03/14/00 Posts: 1 I am trying to find the word for someone who likes to use big words ....it's not me .... :) Thanks. Top #70 - 03/14/00 08:46 PM Re: Help with a word?! scoutmd stranger Registered: 03/14/00 Posts: 2 Loc: Illinois, USA How about sesquipedalian? It can be a noun or an adjective, and can mean a long word (OED Definition 1a), or a person given to using long words (OED Definition 1b). Incidentally, it is from Horace, _Verba Sesquipedalia_, which literally means words a foot and a half long. Top #71 - 03/14/00 10:09 PM Re: Help with a word?! Dr. Death stranger Registered: 03/14/00 Posts: 2 "word-grubber" was an eighteenth-century slang term, according to Peter Bowler's excellent Superior Person's Book of Words (which also lists "sesquipedalian"). I'm more of a paranomasiac, myself... Top #72 - 03/15/00 04:51 AM Re: Help with a word?! autopoesis stranger Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 1 Loc: born: NYC; living: London, UK I quite like crytoscopopheliac (sp.?); but I've found only one reference to this word--in a book called The Mother Tongue : English & How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson. I remember is as defining one who has a fetish for looking through stranger's windows. I like long words. And short replies. Top #73 - 03/15/00 06:18 PM Re: Help with a word?! RonDavis stranger Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 13 Loc: Ontario Never use a long word when a diminutive word will suffice. Top #74 - 03/16/00 12:45 AM Re: Help with a word?! whalemeat stranger Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 14 Loc: sydney australia The word? 'Polysyllabilist' is another. Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 7256 Members 16 Forums 12811 Topics 189686 Posts Max Online: 853 @ 10/23/07 11:39 AM Who's Online 0 registered (), 5 Guests and 23 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Newest Members Alan, jincy crow, aml, Goodspeaker, W1343 7256 Registered Users Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 12529 Jackie 10392 tsuwm 9575 Buffalo Shrdlu 6690 AnnaStrophic 6489 Wordwind 6296 of troy 5400 maverick 4683 WhitmanO'Neill 4189 March Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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