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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Help with a word?! #69 03/15/2000 12:19 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1 jmbodman stranger jmbodman stranger Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1 I am trying to find the word for someone who likes to use big words ....it's not me .... :) Thanks. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help with a word?! #70 03/15/2000 1:46 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 2 Illinois, USA scoutmd stranger scoutmd stranger Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 2 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help with a word?! #71 03/15/2000 3:09 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 2 Dr. Death stranger Dr. Death stranger Joined: Mar 2000 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... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help with a word?! #72 03/15/2000 9:51 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1 born: NYC; living: London, UK autopoesis stranger autopoesis stranger Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help with a word?! #73 03/15/2000 11:18 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21 Ontario RonDavis stranger RonDavis stranger Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21 Ontario Never use a long word when a diminutive word will suffice. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Help with a word?! #74 03/16/2000 5:45 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 14 sydney australia whalemeat stranger whalemeat stranger Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 14 sydney australia The word? 'Polysyllabilist' is another. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  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... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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