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Johnsonese
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English
Etymology
From en Johnson ese.
Proper noun
The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words.
en inkhornism
en 1843 w:Thomas Babington Macaulay Madame D'Arblay Edinburgh Review It is a sort of broken Johnsonese, a barbarous patois, bearing the same relation to the language of Rasselas which the gibberish of the negroes of Jamaica bears to the English of the House of Lords
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