inkhorn word
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]inkhorn word (plural inkhorn words)
- Synonym of inkhorn term
- 2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Porcupine Fish”, in Gould’s Book of Fish[1], New York: Grove, VI, p. 121:
- He was full of inkhorn words going so far as to call grog shops zythepsaries, which seemed several syllables too long to be uttered by any I had ever met within such places […]