Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

Jasper jasper.fidget at gmail.com
Thu May 3 14:11:02 CDT 2007


Yup:


    floccinaucinihilipilification

/floksinawsinihilipillifi*kay*sh’n/

• *noun* the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.

— ORIGIN from Latin /flocci/, /nauci/, /nihili/, /pili/ (words meaning 
‘at little value’).

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Dave Monroe wrote:
> On 5/3/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> floccinaucinihilipilification?
>
> As I recall, that actually WAS in there ...
>
>> Thanks for your 2 cents.
>
> It's be the equivalent of four cents in the UK, no doubt, a little
> under three in the EU ...
>




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