Polyphloisbic Definition
adjective
(of the sea) Noisy, roaring, thundering.
"'Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?'" --Rupert Brooke, en route to the Bosporus, as quoted by William Manchester in his Churchill biography, The Last Lion, page 518.
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Origin of Polyphloisbic
Related to the Ancient Greek πολύφλοισβος (polyphloisbos, “loud‐roaring”).
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