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languagey

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    Fromlanguage +‎-y.

    Adjective

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    languagey (comparativemorelanguagey,superlativemostlanguagey)

    1. (informal, rare) Consisting or making effective use of writtenlanguage.
      • 1991,Don Cupitt,What Is a Story?, London:SCM Press,→ISBN,page149:
        To imagine such a world is to imagine our world: alanguagey, inter-textual fictionalist world, a world of signs, a highlycultural world.
      • 2006, Francis Raven,Inverted Curvatures: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Spuyten Duyvil,→ISBN,page87:
        The overheard snippets of real feeling intermingled with poseur typecasting and provocative grandeur made Jayson feel that he could actually write this poem. He mumbled to himself, "of course, it'll take a lot of notes, but I think I know what poetry can do at this point in my development. I've now written it long enough alone and can do a dialogue scene or a narrative bit or a landscape or a reallylanguagey abstract thing with short feminist lines or..."
      • 2011 May/June, Sue Clancy, “Who Or What Am I?”, inPhilosophy Now[1], number84, London: Anja Publications,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2022-09-29:
        I am a part of everything, but I am not in charge of everything, and that's a relief. I'm here to do as best I can: my watery, grainy,languagey part of the story society is constantly creating about what it means to be alive.
      • 2022 June 2, Des O'Driscoll, “Guests of the Nation:Kevin Barry on adaptingFrank O'Connor's classic tale”, inIrish Examiner[2], Cork: Examiner Publications,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2022-06-09:
        Back then, he admits he was more a fan ofSeán Ó Faoláin, that other Cork writer who was "morelanguagey" than O'Connor.
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