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Meaning Battology Buh Tol Uh Jee Noun Wearisome Repetition Words Speaking

Back battology \buh-TOL-uh-jee\
Front
noun
Wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.

[Battology entered English in the late 1500s from the Greek word battologia meaning "speaking stammeringly" from battos meaning "stammerer" and -logia meaning "one who speaks (in a certain manner)."]

They weren't political or surrealist, they weren't witty or comic. They were only the monotonous evidence of a civic battology. - George Friel, Mr Alfred M.A., 1972

I kept volleying this along the walls of my skull, aspiring by battology to battle. - Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang, 1994

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