Dictionary

splendiloquent en · ADJ

Etymology

Blend of splendid + eloquent, probably modelled after grandiloquent and magniloquent. First attested in 1848.

Meanings

1. Splendid.
   • I saw her new doo^([sic]) at Fergie's yesternight and it was splendiloquent. 2001 November 3, Zenith Nadir, “Re: ok, you know who i AM friends with?”, in alt.fan.kieran-snyder (Usenet):
   • After a long absence, D—— returned with a still longer face, and, after some hesitation, informed us that the whole of our baggage, including S——'s splendiloquent Scheidam, on whose restorative powers we had so much reckoned, was lost : so that we were obliged to content ourselves, after all, with the ration-biscuit D—— carried in his haversack, and the water we had in our canteens. 1848 May 14, Portfire (pseudonym), “Shots from an Old Six-Pounder, No. VII”, in United Service Magazine, page 93:
   • ANNIE: Oh, my eyes feel hundreds of per cent better already, and pretty, why, do you know how I look in them? Spendiloquent. Like a race horse! 1959, William Gibson, The Miracle Worker, Simon and Schuster, published 2002, →ISBN, act I, page 21:
2. Splendidly eloquent.
   • Tirelessly swimming through de Quincy’s ‘department of impassioned prose,’ either in splendiloquent support of some new work or in dismissal of its shortcomings, is vouchsafed to few reviewers. 2006, Nigel J. Jamieson, “The Ubiquitous Book Review”, in Law & Critique, volume 17, number 2, page 218:
   • Aid me now and forever Ye Juxtapositional Muses! And especially Tusa, splendiloquent Dinneen! hero of the fortuitous, commander of the unlikely, first citizen of the joyous lexical state! a. 1971, Sydney Bernard Smith, “Invocation”, in The Book of Shannow, Lulu.com, published 2007, →ISBN, page 10:

Forms

Relateds

magniloquent · grandiloquent · splendiferous