Definition of Monosyllabic

Monkey

MONOSYLLABIC adjective

	Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon -- that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions. The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on Judibras

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Monsignor

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