The noun "battology" refers to the weary repetition of words in speaking or writing.
Substantivet "battology" beskriver en tröttsam upprepning av ord i tal eller skrift.
| Back | battology \buh-TOL-uh-jee\ |
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| Front | noun Wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing. 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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