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eftsooneries

eftsooneries is the plural of eftsoonery.

Meaning of eftsoonery

Noun

eftsoonery (countable and uncountable, plural eftsooneries)

  1. (informal, rare) The use of extremely obscure and archaic language.
    • To the comic and the colloquial of Chaucer's art Mr. Krapp does full justice. Having undertaken to modernize Chaucer, he avoids the affectation of archaic words; he has no "eftsoonery." Some of his phrases are very modern indeed.1933 October 21, Robert Kilburn Root, “Chaucer Modernized”, in Henry Seidel Canby, editor, The Saturday Review of Literature, volume X, number 14, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Associates, →ISSN...

Questions about eftsooneries

What is eftsooneries the plural of?
Eftsooneries is the plural of eftsoonery.

Words near eftsooneries in the dictionary

  1. EFTPOS
  2. efts
  3. EFTSL
  4. eftsones
  5. eftsoon
  6. eftsooneries
  7. eftsoonery
  8. eftsoones
  9. eftsoons
  10. Eftychia
  11. efungumab

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