Oh man, this word describes one of my ugsome collegues perfectly! It's so nice to have a concise word to describe him.

Speaking of, has anyone here read Virginia Woolf's essay that I believed was entitlted "Middlebrow"?

without further comment:

the worthless word for [Feb 24 2003] was: macroverbumsciolist

1) a person who is ignorant of large words
2) a person who pretends to know a word, then secretly refers to a dictionary