hippomostrosesquipedaliophobia
hippomostrosesquipedaliophobia by Pseudonym Psteve October 9, 2004
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Hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Possibly the longest real word in English, other than Antidisestablishmentarianmism.
Defined medically as "the fear of long words."
Defined medically as "the fear of long words."
Patient: Doctor, I think I have a fear of long words.
Doctor: Ah! Yes! You have hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Patient: AHH!
Doctor: Ah! Yes! You have hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Patient: AHH!
Hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia by Yangis Kan July 29, 2004
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fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)