Crossword-Solution: EUPHONISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Euphonism | n. | An agreeable combination of sounds; euphony. |
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| use of pleasant-sounding words | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEMACE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EUPHONISM (4)
Loth to be maledictions referring to the French expression _Mal beau or Beau mal_, a euphonism for epilepsy, so that _Malbe dam_ has no connection with the similar sound of part of it in English, but only means “Epilepsy to me!” The seventeenth and eighteenth century speakers of Cornish sometimes wished to express contempt or dislike by abusive terms.
John's euphonism, "it made him sick." "I daresay," retorted Miss Bolton disagreeably; "my remarks generally have a nauseating effect upon you, I notice; yet that disgraceful girl without any sense of decency--" "_In_decency, you mean," he interrupted.
But it is not so simple for the heated and hurried stranger to calculate that the euphonism “thirty-nine cents” means a shilling, a sixpence, a penny, and a “ha’penny,” and to find the real significance of a demand for $5.35 requires either a pencil and paper or long practice in mental arithmetic.
Thus the case was exactly the opposite of what she chose to imagine; _chints_ was the real name, _bug_ the more or less affected euphonism.