splendiferous

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As suddenly Thorpe seized both men, one in each hand, and brought their heads together with a crash which the barkeeper described afterwards as "splendiferous."

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  1. adjective Splendid: "The working genius of American design has been . . . a refining of utilitarian purity into a kind of splendiferous native simplicity” (Jay Cocks).

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  • Jackson, who played Fury in a 30 second, after-the-credits cameo in the splendiferous —  Pajiba
  • New York's first Indian brass band, plays boisterous wedding, folk and Bollywood songs. morphs the late great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Sufi devotional songs into splendiferous jazz / improv tours-de-force. —  WFMU's recent playlists
  • Fat man, fat man's lovely wife and their not so fat friends all enjoyed a peachy evening of glorious food, splendiferous wine, and sparkling discourse. —  British Blogs
  • It would sound splendiferous, for there ain't no more in it than an empty cask. —  The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
  • Now, I calls it splendiferous Scroggles looked round at his comrades, as if to appeal to their judgment as to the fitness of the word, but not receiving any encouragement, he thrust down the glowing tobacco in his pipe with the end of his little finger, and reiterated the word "splendiferous" with marked emphasis Did ye ever see that word in Johnson?" —  The Red Eric
 

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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin splendiferus, from Late Latin splendōrifer : Latin splendor, splendor; see splendor + Latin -fer, -fer.

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  1. Irreg. from Latin splendor, brightness, + ferre = English bear.
 

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/splɛnˈdɪfərəs/
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