Epizeuxis

What is Epizeuxis?

The action of emphasising a word or phrase by repeating it.

- No, no, no! That's completely wrong

- *That* scene in 'When Harry met Sally'.

Why on earth does the example have to include the word being defined? OK then: epizeuxis.

Erm

1. I word used commonly to fill awkward space in conversations I erm, ran over my car with your cat. ...erm, what? See uhh, umm, ehh, so..

W00tenhaus

1. A pseudo-German word meaning "something of great joy" or w00t. Used to explain a event of great jubulation or joy. Sometimes r..

Scia

1. Starving children in Africa. A further evolution of the thought that the phrase 'starving children in Africa' has lost its me..

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