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单词 cacemphaton
释义 caˈcemphaton Obs. rare.
[Gr. κακέµϕατον ‘ill-sounding, equivocal’.]
An ill-sounding expression.
[1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 260 This vice is called by the Greekes Cacemphaton, we call it the vnshamefast or figure of foule speech.]1622Peacham Compl. Gentl. (1661) 174 It had beene an harsh and unpleasing Cacemphaton, as your own eare will tell you.1721–90in Bailey.
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