Flocinaucinihilipilification
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:54 pm
(In case anyone has seen that Geico commercial and was wondering)
Defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the act or habit of esteeming or describing something as worthless or making something to be worthless by said means."
Other forms include:
floccinaucical -- trifling
floccinaucity -- thing of small importance
floccinaucinihilipilificatious -- small, insignificant
It is the longest non-technical word in The Oxford English Dictionary, first found in 1741 in William Shenstone's Works in Prose and Verse.
Source, "Wikipedia"
Defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the act or habit of esteeming or describing something as worthless or making something to be worthless by said means."
Other forms include:
floccinaucical -- trifling
floccinaucity -- thing of small importance
floccinaucinihilipilificatious -- small, insignificant
It is the longest non-technical word in The Oxford English Dictionary, first found in 1741 in William Shenstone's Works in Prose and Verse.
Source, "Wikipedia"