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.