polyphloisbic
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολύφλοισβος (polúphloisbos, “loud‐roaring”).
Adjective
[edit]polyphloisbic (comparative more polyphloisbic, superlative most polyphloisbic)
- (poetic, of the sea) noisy, roaring, thundering
- 1915, Rupert Brooke, letter to Violet Bonham Carter, quoted in William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518.
- Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?
- 1915, Rupert Brooke, letter to Violet Bonham Carter, quoted in William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518.