polyphloisbic
adjEtymology Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολύφλοισβος (polúphloisbos, “loud‐roaring”).
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Poetic Of the sea, noisy, roaring, thundering.
- 1915, Rupert Brooke, letter to Violet Bonham Carter, quoted in William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518. Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?