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| Long Words | Literature | 1: They morramborizeverzengirizequo-quemorgasacbaquevezinemaffretiding my poor eye. (Rabelais: Pantagruel, iv. 15.) 2: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn-drobwllllandyssiliogogogoch. The name of a Welsh village in Anglesea. In the postal directory the first twenty letters only are given as a sufficient address for practical purposes, but the full name contains 59 letters. The meaning is, "The church of St. Mary in a hollow of white hazel, near to the rapid whirlpool, and to St. Tisilio church, near to a red cave." 3: Agathokakological. (Southey: The Doctor.) 4: M. N. Rostocostojambedanesse, author of After Beef, Mustard. (Rabelais: Pantagruel, ii. 7.) 5: Nitrophenylenediamine. A dye of an intense red colour. 6: Polyphrasticontinomimegalondulaton. 7: Lepadotemachoselachogaleokraniolcip-sanodrimupotrimmatosilphioparaomelit-okatakeclummenokichlepikossuphophat-toperisteralektruonoptegkephalokigklop-eleiolagoosiraiobaletraganopterugon. It is one of the longest words extant (179 English and 169 Greek letters and consisting of 78 syllables). (Aristophanes: Ekklesiazousai, v. 1169.) 8: Tetramethyldiamidobenzhydrols. 9: Cluninstaridysarchides. (Plautus.) 10: Zrchersalzverbrauchsbuchhaltungs-verordnung. (Ausland.) 11: Sankashtachaturthivratodyapana. (Sanskrit work.) (See Trbner's Literary Record. Forster gives one of 152 syllables. 12: Kagwadawwacomgishearg. An Indian chief, who died in Wisconsin in 1866. 13: Jungefrauenzimmerdurchschwind-suchttoedtungs-gegenverein (German. (See Notes and Queries, vol. v. p. 124, first series.) 14: Inanthropomorphisability of deity. 15: Don Juan Nepomuceno de Burionago-natotorecagageazcoecha. An employe in the finance department of Madrid (1867). 16: Batrachomyomachia (battle of the frogs and mice). A Greek mock heroic. 17: Antipericatametanaparbeugedamphi-cribrationes Toordicantium. One of the books in the library of St. Victor. (Rabelais: Pantagruel, ii. 7.) 18: Alcomiroziropoulopilousitounitapignac. The giantess. (Croquemitaine, iii. 2.) Amoronthologosphorus. (See Hair.) (The Three Hairs.) Anantachaturdasivratakatha. (Sanskrit work.) (See Trbner's Literary Record.) 19: "Why not wind up the famous ministerial declaration with `Konx Ompax' or the mystic `Om' or that difficult expression `Polyphrasti-continomimegalondulaton?' "- The Star. 20: "What, Mr. Manhound, was it not enough thus to have morcrocastebezasteverestegrigeligoscop-apondrillated us all in our upper members with your botched mittens, but you must also apply such morderegrippiatabirofreluchamburdureca-quelurintimpaniments on our shin-bones with the hard tops and extremities of your cobbled shoes."- Rabelais, illustrated by Gustavc Dore, p. 438. 21: "Thou art not so long by the head as honorific-abilitudinitatibus."- Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, v. 1. 22: Deanthropomorphisation. 23: Honorificabilitudinitatibus, called the longest word in the (?) English language. It frequently occurs in old plays. (See Bailey's Dictionary.) The "quadradimensionality" is almost as long. 24: Drimtaidhvrickhilliohattan, in the Isle of Mull, Argyleshire. 25: "The general depth of modern researches in structural chemistry must be explained, even to those who are not interested in the mystery of tryphenylmethans, the tetramethyldiamidobenz-hydrols, and other similarly terrific terms used by chemists."- Nineteenth Century (Aug., 1893, p. 248). 26: "Miss Burney has furnished the longest compound in the English tongue: `the sudden-at-the-moment-though-from-lingering-illness-often-previously-expected death of Mr. Burney's wife."- De Vere. 27: "Dinitroaniline, chloroxynaphthalic acid, which may be used for colouring wool in intense red; and nitrophenylenediamine of chromatic brilliancy."- William Crookes: The Times, October 5th, 1868. 28: "Conturbabantur Constantinopolitani, Innumerabilibus sollicitudinibus." 29: "Constantinopolitan maladministration Superinduces denationalisation." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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