See sesquipedalian in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia"
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"text": "Happy word hunting! You might bag a sesquipedalian trophy! (Look it up in the dictionary).",
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"ref": "2014 October 30, Ben Brantley, “When the head leads the heart: 'The Real Thing,' With Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal, opens on Broadway [print version: When the witty head is far ahead of the heart: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor star in revival of 'Real Thing', International New York Times, 4 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "[I]ts main character, Henry (Mr. [Ewan] McGregor), is a successful, intellectual dramatist who seems quite capable of churning out fizzy, challenging works about brilliant but ambivalent revolutionaries, philosophers, etc. […] But this cleverer-than-thou creature gets his comeuppance in \"The Real Thing,\" showing that a very human heart – just like those possessed by the less sesquipedalian – beats beneath his fancy words.",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "of long words",
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"sense": "of long words",
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"sense": "of long words",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "of long words",
"word": "ellenlang"
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"lang": "German",
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"roman": "makaronoeidís",
"sense": "of long words",
"word": "μακαρονοειδής"
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"sense": "of long words",
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
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"sense": "of long words",
"word": "margra atkvæða"
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"sense": "of long words",
"word": "sesquipedale"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "given to the use of long words",
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"masculine"
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