verbiage

Etymology

From French verbiage. The English equivalent can possibly be analysed as verb (a word indicating an action) + -age.

noun

  1. Overabundance of words.
    A very garrulous person, he approached the counter in a fog of verbiage. 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 39
  2. The manner in which something is expressed in words.
    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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