Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Uttering few words; saying little.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Uttering few words; brief in speech.

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  • adjective Using few words when speaking.

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  • Pauciloquent as a clam.

    August 18, 2009

  • Pauciloquent is as pauciloquent does!

    August 18, 2009

  • From Wordnik: "Uttering few words; saying little."

    August 18, 2009

  • Taciturn as the tomb.

    August 22, 2009