Vocabulary Virtuosos Gifts

Tramp's Definition of Oxymoron.

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

Academic Idol - 'Professor Johannsen's paper was zippy. It had robust vocabulary and I almost felt that I could dance to it. I would give it a 7.'

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

'Roget it's fantastic, superb, extraordinary...where on earth did you get the idea?'

Ninedency: A budding tendency

"It's a play on words."

"Your vocabulary is enlarged."

Thesaurus Company

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

"My nephew Jack here can say ‘I’m unemployed’ in seven languages."

'Either you do or you don't - there isn't any 'cooling-off' period!'

"Why do people think using big words is a bad thing?"

Dictionary. It's a cordless spell checker!

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

'Sometimes, from time to time, occasionally I wish I'd never bought that ruddy thesaurus!'

'Coleridge'

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

"It's my conscience... It's all achy"

I'm a songbird. He's my lyricist.

"Dad, is there a word that contains all the vowels?"

Writer

Does "worldly goods" include intellectual property?

"Can you teach me to really bark? I only seem to be able to yap..."

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

Poetry repairman

Bookworm group

"Of course, that's only a first draft."

Sign on Roget's Thesaurus, Inc.: 'Absent Ingesting Comestibles'

'They call me the 'grandfather' of Hip-Hop!'

Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev

When English majors become waiters.

"Now this is a Francis Ford Coppola. We still haven't been here quite long enough to be drinkable ourselves."

Roget's Brontosaurus.

'They decided to immure the ladrone in a drogue.'