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#97219 02/28/2003 11:39 AM
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Oh man, this word describes one of my ugsome collegues perfectly! It's so nice to have a concise word to describe him.


#97220 02/28/2003 11:56 AM
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Speaking of, has anyone here read Virginia Woolf's essay that I believed was entitlted "Middlebrow"?


#97221 02/28/2003 2:31 PM
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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




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