单词 | polylogy |
释义 | polylogyn. rare after 17th cent. Loquacity, talkativeness; verbosity; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] overspeecheOE tongue-itch1540 multiloquy1542 long tongue1557 garrulity1581 slipperiness1589 polylogy1602 volubility1602 loquacity1603 lubricity1603 tonguiness1607 overspeakinga1610 talkativeness1609 philology1623 tongue-vice1628 glibness1633 futility1640 linguacity1656 garrulousness1727 linguosity1727 loquaciousness1727 multiloquiousness1727 jaw1748 multiloquence1760 flippancy1789 verbal diarrhoea1808 magpiety1832 big mouth1834 pleniloquence1838 chattiness1876 open-mouthedness1883 gabbiness1887 garrulance1890 irreticence1919 talkiness1934 ear-bashing1945 mee-mawing1974 1602 R. Tyrie 5 Godlie Serm. 285 Vsing Polulogies and Battologies that is vaine repetitions, & much babblings. 1621 T. Granger Familiar Expos. Eccles. 115 Many words, (batologie or polylogie)..are signes of a foole. 1665 G. Thomson Galeno-pale i. 2 Some men, who count Learning principally to consist in variety of Languages, Polylogie, and plausible Argumentations. 1780 T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. II Polylogy, Talkativeness. 1890 My Curates 19 Mr. Slimmer's vigorous energy in polylogy (if I may coin a word). 1998 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 38 219 His plain speech.., contrasting dramatically with the sundry-tongued polylogy of his enemies. Derivatives poˈlylogize v. rare (intransitive) to talk a great deal. ΚΠ 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. ii. 231 I have ‘polylogized’ quite long enough. 1988 T. Cortazzi Garden of Paradise 16 Polygons polyglotting, polymaths polylogizing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1602 |
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