The book I'm reading at the moment is full of big words. Gi-normous words. To the point where I read it holding the book in my left hand and the dictionary in my right hand. So it was with some amusement that I came across this rather large lexeme the other day...
Polyphloisboiotatotic.
Polyphloisboiotatotic.
Huh???
'That roars most loudly of all or very loudly indeed'.
It was once used (probably the only time it was ever used in the history of etymology) in a sentence by William Makepeace Thackeray, when, in 1843 he wrote:
'The line of the shore washed by the poluphlosboiotic, nay, the poluphlosboiotatotic sea.'
Respect.
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