Johnsonese

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  1. The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words.
    — It is a sort of broken Johnsonese, a barbarous patois, bearing the same relation to the language of Rasselas which the gibberish of the negroes of Jamaica bears to the English of the House of Lords

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From Johnson + -ese.
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