Vocabulary Virtuosos Mugs

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."

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!'

Wordplay: Nonstarter.

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

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

'Coleridge'

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

'This is all without rhyme or reason.'

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

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

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff

Writer

Poetry repairman

Bookworm group

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

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

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

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

When English majors become waiters.

Alexander Pope

"...and are you, Jessica, committed to this bit?"

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

Roget's Brontosaurus.