exeleutherostomize

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Greek”) as if Greek *ἐξελευθεροστομίζειν, < ἐξ out + ἐλεύθερος free + στόμα mouth + -ίζ verbal suffix + -ειν infinitive ending.

Verb

exeleutherostomize (third-person singular simple present exeleutherostomizes, present participle exeleutherostomizing, simple past and past participle exeleutherostomized)

1. (rare) To speak out freely, especially at an inappropriate moment.
   • 1854, C. D. Badham, Prose Halieutics, page 181:

     The heroes of the Iliad—shall we hide it to live, or exeleutherostomize it and die?—are for the most part boors.

   • 1973, Bryan Stanley Johnson, Christie Malry's Own Double-entry, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 12:

     The offices of a General Manager of one of the few national banks is not the place to exeleutherostomise.

   • 1974, Paul W. Boytinck, Anthony Burgess: an enumerative bibliography, with selected annotations:

     Burgess has had time to add to the world's memorable stock of philosophical conundrums, worldly glosses, kindly judgments, liberating verbal experiments — and when he has been given a decently grateful interval to exeleutherostomize.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition 1989