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vox barbara (VOKS BAHR-buhr-uh) noun

   A barbarous word or phrase, especially applied to supposedly neo-Latin
   terms that are neither Latin nor Greek.

[From Latin vox barbara (foreign word or speech).] 

   "To get at what I do mean I need an Anglicism (not, be it noted,
   a Briticism, which word is an Americanism and a vox barbara to boot)."
   Kingsley Amis, Amis on English, The Guardian (UK), Mar 10, 1997.




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