twenty-five cent word
twenty-five cent word noun: synonym of ten-dollar word.
Noun
twenty-five cent word (plural twenty-five cent words)
- Synonym of ten-dollar word.
- The old man chuckled. “Well, you can bandy twenty-five cent words all you want, but— Say! we’ve never had a talk like this before, have we? […]”1950, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in The Town and the City, New York: Harcourt, published 1983, page 331
- Some of the most incredible cases I have ever worked with involve the act of pulling strands of hair from one’s own head. Psychiatrists and psychologists have a twenty-five cent word for this behavior. They call it Trichotillomania.1988, Howard Rosenthal, Not With My Life I Don’t: Preventing Your Suicide and That of Others, Muncie, Indiana: Accelerated Development, Inc., Chapter 4, p. 18
- Synonyms:
- ten-dollar word
Synonyms of twenty-five cent word
Forms of twenty-five cent word
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Questions about twenty-five cent word
- What does twenty-five cent word mean?
- Twenty-five cent word means synonym of ten-dollar word.
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- Twenty-five cent word is a noun.
- What is the plural of twenty-five cent word?
- The plural of twenty-five cent word is twenty-five cent words.
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