inkhorn word

English

Etymology

From inkhorn +‎ word.

Noun

inkhorn word (plural inkhorn words)

  1. An obscure, affectedly or ostentatiously learned or erudite borrowing from another language, especially from Latin or Greek.
    • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould’s Book of Fish, New York: Grove, “The Porcupine Fish,” 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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