inkhorn word

English

Noun

inkhorn word (plural inkhorn words)

  1. Synonym of inkhorn term
    • 2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Porcupine Fish”, in Gould’s Book of Fish‎, New York: Grove, VI, p. 121:
      He was full of inkhorn words going so far as to call grog shops zythepsaries, which seemed several syllables too long to be uttered by any I had ever met within such places […]
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