ETYMOLOGY
– from Latin pauci- (comb. form. of Latin paucus few, little)
+ -loquent (speaking)
EXAMPLE
“…There was a sharp lawyer, one P-,
Whose thoughts never got through his still lips;
And all he would say was “ah!” “h’m!” “oh!” and “ay
This pauciloquent person named P- …”
From: Ye Book of Copperheads
Checker-Boarders and Keystoners
Charles Godfrey Leland, 1863
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