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batrachomyomachian
batrachomyomachian
English
Adjective
batrachomyomachian (comparative more batrachomyomachian, superlative most batrachomyomachian)
- (rare) Petty (chiefly of a quarrel).
- 1933, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Earl Leslie Griggs, Philip Hamilton McMillan, Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- ...sounded throughout to my own ears as a Batrachomyomachian battle between the croaks and the squeaks...
- 1971, Edwin Harrison Cady, The Light of Common Day: Realism in American Fiction
- The batrachomyomachian cure for the superhuman ego is to chop it off at the knees and cut it down to a human, preferably humane, level.
- 1933, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Earl Leslie Griggs, Philip Hamilton McMillan, Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Translations
petty
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