Word of the Day

Orotund:

marked by fullness, strength, and clarity of sound :  sonorous [Merriam-Webster]

Seen in Thereby Hangs a Tale, by Charles Earle Funk:

Bill Robinson may have heard [“copacetic”] as a youngster; its orotund polysyllabism may have stuck in his mind, and, unconsciously, he may have appropriated it, perhaps ascribing to it a meaning of his own. [Section on “copacetic”.]

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