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This tag is for questions related to definitions and nuances of meaning of a word or phrase.
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What's ponceathon?
It's a word that does not seem to appear in dictionaries. Here's an example of usage:
Starkey rarely deigns to examine the undesirables outside the
ponceathon of the Tudor court.
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What is a "goon tie"?
On the first page of Nabokov's Pnin the eponymous hero's clothing is described and it includes a "flamboyant goon tie". What exactly is that?
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What are "shrewd turns"?
In John Webster's play, The Duchess of Malfi, Antonio says of the Duke:
He never pays debts unless they be shrewd turns,
And those he will confess that he doth owe.
I really don't understand w …
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Meaning of "contumelist"
J.M. Coetzee writes this sentence in Elizabeth Costello:
He is here simply to protect her, to bar the way against the
relic-hunters and the contumelists and the sentimental pilgrims.
(p. 30 in …
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