Have you ever been inveigled? Bamboozled? Have you been hornswoggled by lexiphanic rodomontade? Have you fallen victim to the flummery of an ultracrepidarian?

Fear not - you can learn to parse these fanciful formations and lexical sockdolagers. You might even pick up some parlance with which to pepper your own persiflage.

We're talking about grandiloquent words, delightful colloquialisms mostly from the 19th century. John Camden Hotten's published in 1859, described them as vulgarisms of an

Mr. Sokolowski said.

To read the complete article, see:
Words Full of Sound and Fury(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/crosswords/grandiloquent-words-language.html)