verborragia

Portuguese

Etymology

From verbo +‎ -ragia, analogously to hemorragia.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veʁ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.ɐ/ [veɦ.bo.haˈʒi.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veʁ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.ɐ/ [veɦ.bo.haˈʒi.ɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /veɾ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.ɐ/ [veɾ.bo.haˈʒi.ɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /veʁ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.ɐ/ [veʁ.bo.χaˈʒi.ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /veɻ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.a/ [veɻ.bo.haˈʒi.a]

• Hyphenation: ver‧bor‧ra‧gi‧a

Noun

verborragia f (plural verborragias)

1. verbiage, verbose

   Synonym: verborreia

Spanish

Noun

verborragia f (plural verborragias)

1. verbiage, verbose
   • 2015 July 31, “La racionalidad del señor Trump”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Ahora sí, su verborragia incontrolable le había traicionado, su necesidad de atención mediática le jugó una mala pasada.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “verborragia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10