Word of the Day: EFFUTITIOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin effutitius, from Latin effutio (to chatter, prate)

EXAMPLE
“… No xenodochium allays
Radicate thirst with “Bass” or “Booth.”
Unaccendible paradigm!
Call not this
effutitious prate;
‘Tis ecphonesis, though it seem
But babbling to balbucinate.
…”

From: The Savage-Club Papers
Edited by Andrew Halliday, 1867
A Social Science Valentine, By Thomas Archer

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