floccinaucinihilipilification (29).
f. is an abbreviation for 'following'. It is written after a page or line number to indicate that you are referring to both the page or line mentioned and the one after it. You use ff. when you are referring to the page or line mentioned and two or more pages or lines after it.
Lingusitics sources trace the word back to works published as long ago as 1741, in a letter by William Shenstone, who was credited by Sir Walter Scott in 1826 as the inventor of the word. FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION (noun), the act of estimating something or someone as worthless.
Cattywampus is a variant of catawampus, another example of grand 19th century American slang. In addition to “askew” catawampus may refer to “an imaginary fierce wild animal,” or may mean “savage, destructive.”
slubberdegullion (plural slubberdegullions) A filthy, slobbering person; a sloven, a villain, a fiend, a louse. A worthless person. A drunken or alcoholic person.
The longest word in the English language, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, won primary school speller Jemimah Elise Sampson, the East Coast Radio's Last Kid Standing title, as seen in the video below published by the East Coast Radio.
Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. This is the longest word in English which is composed of seven words. This 52-letter word was coined by Dr. Edward Strother to describe the spa waters in Bath, England.
usually obscene : to engage in coitus with. sometimes used interjectionally with an object (such as a personal or reflexive pronoun) to express anger, contempt, or disgust. usually vulgar : to deal with unfairly or harshly : cheat, screw.
d-word (plural d-words) (euphemistic, chiefly US And UK) The word damn.
e-word (plural e-words) Any word beginning with e, especially one referring to something electronic, or one that is (often humorously) treated as controversial in a given context (for example, evolution, evangelical or enlightenment). quotations ▼
According to the English for Students website, j, q, and z occur the least if you analyze the frequency of each letter in the entries of the 11th Concise Oxford Dictionary.
One three-letter word does much of the heavy lifting in the English language. The little word "run" — in its verb form alone — has 645 distinct meanings.
The longest English word is also the longest word in the world, with almost 190,000 letters. It is the chemical name for titin, the largest protein known. The longest word in the English dictionary however, is the 45-letter word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", which refers to a lung disease.
The number 3001 is Three Thousand and One in words.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is it real and the longest word in the dictionary? Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a real word but is not the longest word in the dictionary. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the dictionary.
snollygoster (plural snollygosters) (slang, obsolete) A shrewd person not guided by principles, especially a politician. quotations ▼
MEANING: noun: A habitual faultfinder or complainer.
Noun. ninnyhammer (plural ninnyhammers) a foolish person; a simpleton quotations ▼