名词

词源

源自法語 verbiage。英语词可能可以分析作verb (“動詞”) + -age。

读音

  • /ˈvɜː(ɹ).bi.ɪd͡ʒ/ 英國
  • /ˈvɚ.bi.ɪd͡ʒ/ US

释义

  1. 赘语,废话

    A very garrulous person, he approached the counter in a fog of verbiage.

    1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 39):
  2. 啰嗦

    bureaucratic verbiage

    The comparison of coincidences in the verbiage of different languages, and affinity of etymological formation, are interesting subjects of philological investigation.

    1846, Margaret Thornley, The True End of Education and the Means Adapted to It:

    Use concise military verbiage.

    1947, George S. Patton, War as I Knew It:
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