Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Talking idly or vainly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Talking foolishly.
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- adjective Talking in a
vain orfoolish way
Etymologies
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From Latin vaniloquens
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Examples
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Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity.
December 7th, 2005 curufea 2005
whichbe commented on the word vaniloquent
This must be when the stars of Def Comedy Jam do their "white guy" impersonations.
May 20, 2008