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polyphloisboian, a.|ˌpɒlɪflɔɪsˈbɔɪən|
Also poluphloisboian, polyphlœsbœan, -phloisbean.
[Humorously f. Gr. πολυϕλοίσβοιο (θαλάσσης) ‘of the loud-roaring (sea)’, echoic phrase often used by Homer; Epic gen. of πολύϕλοισβος, f. πολύς much + ϕλοῖσβος roaring, din. The Roman spelling is polyphlœsbœ-, whence various intermediate adaptations.]
Loud-roaring, boisterous.
1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 675 We leave that..to critics of a more polyphloisboian note. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. iv, Two men are walking by the polyphlœsbœan ocean. 1881T. Davidson in Fortn. Rev. No. 179. 560 The unreliable, erratic, polyphloisbean Loewenbruk also put in an appearance.
So poly-, poluphloisˈboiic, -phloisboiˈotic, -phloisboiotaˈtotic [as if f. Gr. superlat. suffix -οτατος], poluphloisˈboisterous [with allusion to boisterous] adjs.; all humorous nonce-words. Also polyphloisˈboioism, -boism, noisy bombast.
1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 157 What hammering of epithets!..what helpless polyphloisboioism! 1843Thackeray Irish Sk.-bk. xxix, The line of shore washed by the poluphloisboiotic, nay, the poluphloisboiotatotic sea. 1863E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 294 How is it the Islandic..was not more Poluphloisboi-ic? 18..in A. Godley Verses to Order (1892) 25 Poluphloisboisterous Homer of old Threw all his augments into the sea. 1892Blackw. Mag. Sept. 395 An ororotundity, a polyphloisboism that is delicious. |