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sesquipedalian \ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-yuhn\, adjective:
1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words.
2. Long and ponderous; having many syllables.

noun:
1. A long word.

As a sesquipedalian stylist, he can throw a word like 'eponymous" into a sentence without missing a beat.
-- Campbell Patty, "The sand in the oyster", The Horn Book Magazine, May 15, 1996

. . .her eccentric family's addiction to sesquipedalians (that big word for "big words"), and her furtive passion for flossy mail-order-catalog prose.
-- David Browne, "Books/The Week", Entertainment Weekly, October 23, 1998

Sesquipedalian comes from Latin sesquipedalis, "a foot and a half long, hence inordinately long," from sesqui, "one half more, half as much again" + pes, ped-, "a foot."

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Attention Old People: The saying "Jumped the shark" has "Nuked the Fridge"

You know how it used to be cool to say something "jumped the shark" when you were describing how that something has passed its prime and become ridiculous and/or dated? (You know, it harkens back to that Happy Days espisode when Fonzie water skis over the shark.) Well, you can't say "jumped the shark" anymore-- lest you out yourself as a geezer-- because that expression has um, passed its prime, etc. You wanna be a cool hipster? Then you gotta say, "nuked the fridge."

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