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Verbiage
verbiage
If you refer to someone’s speech or writing as verbiage, you are critical of them because they use too many words, which makes their speech or writing difficult to understand. (FORMAL) Stripped of their pretentious verbiage, his statements come dangerously close to inviting racial hatred. = waffle N-UNCOUNT c darkgreen]disapproval
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noun Etymology: French, from Middle French verbier to chatter, alteration of Old French verboier, verbloier, from Old French (Picard dialect) werbler to trill — more at warble Date: circa 1721 1. a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content such a tangled maze of evasive ~ as a typical party platform — Marcia Davenport 2. manner of expressing oneself in words ; diction sportswriters guarded their ~ so jealously — R. A. Sokolov ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. needless accumulation of words; verbosity. Etymology: F f. obs. verbeier chatter f. verbe word: see VERB ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. преим. пренебр. многословие; словоизвержение; словоблудие mere verbiage —- пустословие; пустые слова florid verbiage —- пышные фразы, высокопарная речь to lose oneself in verbiage —- запутаться в собственном красноречии 2. манера выражаться concise military verbiage —- четкий военный язык ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun многословие; пустословие; to lose oneself in verbiage - запутаться в собственном красноречии Syn: see wording ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n formal too many unnecessary words in speech or writing (eliminate irrelevant verbiage) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1721, from Fr. verbiage "wordiness," from verbier "to chatter," from O.Fr. verbe "word," from L. verbum "word." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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