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noun • pompous or pretentious talk or writing | ||||
| 41% | 4 | French equivalent of the English “high” and Latin “altus”, thus prefixed to “boy”, “goût”, “monde”, “pas” and “ton”, to mean high wood, high taste, high society/world, high step and high fashion respectively | ||
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| 33% | 9 | Fluent-sounding nonsense | ||
noun • Pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language, especially legal or bureaucratic jargon. verb • To use pretentious, incomprehensible, or overly technical language. | ||||
High Sounding Nonsense
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CLAPTRAP which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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CLAPTRAP
Updated: October 13, 2023
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