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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Grandiloquence #85335 11/01/2002 11:46 AM Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 47 Welwyn Garden City, Herts , UK Maurice newbie Maurice newbie Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 47 Welwyn Garden City, Herts , UK Grandiloquence is a word that sounds like what it is. Just like the word pungent and some obscenities - the sound the word makes evokes the definition. What is the word that describes this effect? Sounds-like-what-it-is is a little unwieldly. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Grandiloquence Maurice 11/01/2002 11:46 AM Re: Grandiloquence Buffalo Shrdlu 11/01/2002 1:43 PM Re: Grandiloquence wwh 11/01/2002 2:01 PM euonymous TEd Remington 11/01/2002 2:33 PM Re: euonymous wwh 11/01/2002 2:41 PM Re: euonymous Bean 11/01/2002 2:48 PM Re: euonymous of troy 11/01/2002 2:55 PM Re: euonymous wwh 11/01/2002 4:15 PM Re: mellifluous wow 11/01/2002 3:06 PM Re: mellifluous wofahulicodoc 11/01/2002 9:55 PM Re: mellifluous wwh 11/01/2002 10:17 PM go with the slow flow wofahulicodoc 11/01/2002 10:24 PM Re: go with the slow flow AnnaStrophic 11/02/2002 1:29 AM Re: go with the slow flow wwh 11/02/2002 1:40 AM Re: antibiotic honey Faldage 11/02/2002 12:32 PM Re: antibiotic honey wwh 11/02/2002 1:21 PM This is supposed to be a word board, isn't it? wofahulicodoc 11/02/2002 2:06 PM Re: This is supposed to be a word board, isn't it? Jackie 11/02/2002 2:19 PM cross-very-old-threading wofahulicodoc 11/02/2002 6:13 PM Re: cross-very-old-threading Jackie 11/02/2002 8:09 PM Re: cross-very-old-threading of troy 11/02/2002 9:41 PM Re: cross-very-old-threading wwh 11/02/2002 10:06 PM an eye for an eye? wofahulicodoc 11/05/2002 9:39 PM Re: an eye for an eye? wwh 11/05/2002 9:53 PM Re: an eye for an eye? wofahulicodoc 11/05/2002 10:36 PM Re: antibiotic honey Faldage 11/19/2002 2:17 PM Re: antibiotic honey wwh 11/19/2002 2:55 PM Re: antibiotic honey Faldage 11/19/2002 3:45 PM Re: antibiotic honey wwh 11/19/2002 3:53 PM Re: antibiotic honey Faldage 11/19/2002 4:05 PM Re: antibiotic honey wwh 11/19/2002 4:21 PM Re: antibiotic honey Faldage 11/19/2002 4:59 PM Re: antibiotic honey wwh 11/19/2002 5:07 PM Re: Grandiloquence Jackie 11/01/2002 5:44 PM 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 Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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