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mouth-filling en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (informal) Long and difficult to pronounce.
    • And how many people can remember that the full name of the insecticide DDT is the mouth-filling dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane? 2009, Lawrence Trask, Why Do Languages Change?:

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more mouth-filling Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most mouth-filling Degree=Sup lexicographic