December 2009
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griffonage
noun • /ɡrifɔnæʒ/ • (rare) crude or illegible handwriting
From French griffoner, to scribble.
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
noun • fear of long words
A humorous extension of sesquipedaliophobia which also means ‘fear of long words’. For a sesquipedaliophobe, hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is quite likely a monster-hippopotamus of a big word. The related word sesquipedalian is used as a noun to refer a long word or a person who uses long words, or as an adjective to describe a long word. Sesquipedalian...