Associations to the word «Johnsonese»

Verb

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Wiktionary

JOHNSONESE, proper noun. The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words.

Wise words

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle