verborragia
Portuguese
Etymology
From verbo + -ragia, analogously to hemorragia.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /veʁ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.ɐ/ [veɦ.bo.haˈʒi.ɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /veɾ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.ɐ/ [veɾ.bo.haˈʒi.ɐ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /veʁ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.ɐ/ [veʁ.bo.χaˈʒi.ɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /veɻ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.a/ [veɻ.bo.haˈʒi.a]
- Hyphenation: ver‧bor‧ra‧gi‧a
Noun
verborragia f (plural verborragias)
- verbiage, verbose
- Synonym: verborreia
Spanish
Noun
verborragia f (plural verborragias)
- verbiage, verbose
- 2015 July 31, “La racionalidad del señor Trump”, in El País[1]:
- Ahora sí, su verborragia incontrolable le había traicionado, su necesidad de atención mediática le jugó una mala pasada.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “verborragia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024