verborragia

Portuguese

Etymology

From verbo +‎ -ragia, analogously to hemorragia.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /veʁ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.ɐ/ [veɦ.bo.haˈʒi.ɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /veɾ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.ɐ/ [veɾ.bo.haˈʒi.ɐ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /veʁ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.ɐ/ [veʁ.bo.χaˈʒi.ɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /veɻ.bo.ʁaˈʒi.a/ [veɻ.bo.haˈʒi.a]

Hyphenation: ver‧bor‧ra‧gi‧a

Noun

verborragia f (plural verborragias)

verbiage, verbose
Synonym: verborreia

Spanish

Noun

verborragia f (plural verborragias)

verbiage, verbose
- 2015 July 31, “La racionalidad del señor Trump”, in El País‎:
  Ahora sí, su verborragia incontrolable le había traicionado, su necesidad de atención mediática le jugó una mala pasada.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

“verborragia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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