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- noun Plural form of
polysyllable .
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Examples
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Animal nick names (Moose), someone who's gotten a "neither female nor male name", polysyllables, "K or C or Y", "shortened, not stirred" names, "I'm calling you Bob" etc.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but polysyllables will never hurt me,” Manni retorted.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but polysyllables will never hurt me,” Manni retorted.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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Do you really think William F. Buckley Jr. or George Will would just trash, or at least trash in polysyllables rather than invective?
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The first thing ‘Rhyme’ does is define itself: “when we speak of rhyme, we usually have in mind only two types of agreement: different initial sounds and identical following sounds,...or polysyllables which correspond at every point except one...”
THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO EILEEN 2009
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That makes it hard for a translator to stick with the polysyllables that Chaucer often used for rhythmic effect.
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Winston Churchill, who wrote a treatise on the use of rhetoric in political speech at the age of 22, himself once opened an attack on his political opponents, saying "These professional intellectuals who revel in decimals and polysyllables ...."
Joseph Romm: Why Smart Talkers Lose Debates and How Obama Can Beat McCain Anyway 2008
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There may be a point or two in there, but between the banal thoughts, the crashing polysyllables, and the air of insulting hostility, no person who values his or her time would waste it on this nonsense.
"This man is a clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done" — says Biden of Obama. Ann Althouse 2008
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We can use short, plain words or sesquipedalian polysyllables; we may want to use both.
Archive 2004-12-01 M-mv 2004
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Hugh had spoken in polysyllables about a surgical procedure.
THE BABY WINDOW by Vincent VanAllen | Fiction | Futurismic 2006
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