eftsoonery

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The use of extremely obscure and archaic language. countable,informal,rare,uncountable
    — To the comic and the colloquial of Chaucer's art Mr. Krapp does full justice. Having undertaken to modernize Chaucer, he avoids the affectation of archaic words; he has no "eftsoonery." Some of his phrases are very modern indeed.

词形变化

eftsooneries plural

词源

From eftsoon (or eftsoons) + -ery. Eftsoon, an archaic term meaning "once again" or "soon after", is itself an example of eftsoonery.
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