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Floccinaucinihilipilification

by ruby-watson

Noun: Estimating something as worthless. Example: "How much value you've put on my heart"
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Written by
ruby-watson
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Published
Oct 17, 2012
Time
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(FLOK-si-NO-si-NY-HIL-i-PIL-i-fi-KAY-shuhn)

This word was coined by combining four Latin terms flocci, nauci, nihili, pili, all meaning something of little or no value, which were listed in the well-known "Eton Latin Grammar" of Eton College in the UK.

The Oxford English Dictionary shows the first use of the word by William Shetstone in 1777

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