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twenty-five cent word

noun

Definitions

  1. Synonym of ten-dollar word.

    • The old man chuckled. “Well, you can bandy twenty-five cent words all you want, but— Say! we’ve never had a talk like this before, have we? […]”
    • Remember that while the English language has lots of “twenty-five cent” words like perturb or effrontery, statuesque or decorous, it also has lots of essential short, sturdy words like of or but, say or stop or glow.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for twenty-five cent word. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA