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phrasemongery

noun

Etymology

From phrasemonger + -y.

  1. derived from *(s)meh₂-✻ — “to beckon, signal”
  2. derived from *manicō✻
  3. derived from ن ج ل
  4. derived from μαγγανεύω — “to use charms or philtres; to cheat, play tricks; to dress food artificially to make it appear better”
  5. derived from *-ārī✻
  6. derived from mangō — “dealer, trader”
  7. inherited from *mangārī✻ — “dealer, merchant, monger”
  8. inherited from mangere — “dealer, merchant, trader”
  9. inherited from mongere
  10. compounded as phrasemonger — “phrase + monger”
  11. suffixed as phrasemongery — “phrasemonger + y”

Definitions

  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.
    • Count among its faults the phrasemongery that ran riot a while back.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for phrasemongery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA