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phrasemongery

phrasemongery noun: elaborate or bombastic speech or writing.

Noun

phrasemongery (uncountable)

  1. Elaborate or bombastic speech or writing.
    • He may sometimes exaggerate the truth for the sake of the expression, sometimes perhaps sacrifice it; but he never degenerates into mere phrasemongery.1849, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Littell's Living Age - Volume 20, page 299
    • Count among its faults the phrasemongery that ran riot a while back.2001, J. Scheibert, Frederic Trautmann, A Prussian Observes the American Civil War, →ISBN

Origin of phrasemongery

From phrasemonger + -y.

Questions about phrasemongery

What does phrasemongery mean?
Phrasemongery means elaborate or bombastic speech or writing.
What part of speech is phrasemongery?
Phrasemongery is a noun.

Words near phrasemongery in the dictionary

  1. phrasemongered
  2. phrasemongerer
  3. phrasemongerers
  4. phrasemongering
  5. phrasemongers
  6. phrasemongery
  7. phraseogram
  8. phraseograms
  9. phraseograph
  10. phraseographic
  11. phraseographs

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