Today's slang word of the day is five-dollar word. Its definitions appear below. Click here to vote on usage and vulgarity, to see words that share the same meaning, and to see words that share the same root words.
five-dollar word
noun
- a fancy word.
Citation from often attributed to Mark Twain blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: expensive, fancy, high quality.
Last edited on Apr 25 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.
Enjoy!
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com) from The Online Slang Dictionary
P.S. Sorry about the blacked out citations. Google penalizes the dictionary if I show them. (There's a bunch of information about the penalty here.)
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