Polyphloisbic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of the sea, noisy, roaring, thundering. poetic

    "1915, Rupert Brooke, letter to Violet Bonham Carter, quoted in William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518. Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?"

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"1915, Rupert Brooke, letter to Violet Bonham Carter, quoted in William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518. Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?"

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολύφλοισβος (polúphloisbos, “loud‐roaring”).

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