polysyllable
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of polysyllable
Example Sentences
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She can still make something unmailable out of the twitch of a feather or a polysyllable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Australians on the whole realize that multiculturalism, that forbiddingly bureaucratic polysyllable responsible for so much hot air, really means learning to read other people's image banks, not a forced renunciation of one's own.
From Time Magazine Archive
He never chooses a monosyllable when a polysyllable will do.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has slain the polysyllable, that huge and slimy centipede which has sprawled over all the valleys of England like the "loathly worm" who was slain by the ancient knight.
From George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The formidable polysyllable simply means, "Hatchets rattling inside the baskets of the carpenters."
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner
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