Paging the pedanticisti: "fustian"

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by Domenec, Apr 7, 2006.

  1. Domenec

    Domenec Guest

    Does anybody actually use this word? If so, I think I'll adapt the text
    from Richard Dooling and use it to reply to IT ultimate solution
    sellers.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2006/04/07.html

    fustian \FUHS-chuhn\, noun:
    1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including
    corduroy, velveteen, etc.
    2. An inflated style of writing or speech; pompous or pretentious
    language.

    adjective:
    1. Made of fustian.
    2. Pompous; ridiculously inflated; bombastic.

    Don't squander the court's patience puffing your cheeks up on stately
    bombast and lofty fustian. Speak plainly!
    -- Richard Dooling, Brain Storm

    His stated motive is to meet "the flood of cant, fustian and emotional
    nonsense which pollutes the intellectual atmosphere."
    -- Walter H. Waggoner, "Joseph W. Bishop Jr., Law Professor and
    Author", New York Times, May 21, 1985

    It would take a stout heart to read through all the loyal effusions and
    fustian birthday odes of the 18th-century laureates -- Nahum Tate,
    Colley Cibber and the rest.
    -- John Gross, "In Search of a Laureate: Making Book on Britain's Next
    Official Poet", New York Times, July 15, 1984

    Fustian derives from Old French fustaigne, from Medieval Latin
    fustaneum, but its precise roots beyond that point are uncertain.
     
    Domenec, Apr 7, 2006
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    HooDooWitch Guest

    All the time, and in the proper context too ...

    "When deciding which of two T-Shirts to wear,
    I always choose the less fustian."
     
    HooDooWitch, Apr 7, 2006
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