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word-hoard
[ wurd-hawrd, -hohrd ]
noun
- a person's vocabulary.
Word History and Origins
Origin of word-hoard1
Example Sentences
And then, around Page 15, the wheels bust off this narrative, and we’re airborne: “Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-hoard pent up within him.”
It’s the story of how, Ferlinghetti writes in the book, he “came into his own voice and let loose his word-hoard pent up within him.”
The “word-hoard” that is thus “let loose” for the following 150 or so pages is not quite a novel nor a memoir.
Next we find Little Boy became Grown Boy, who “came into his own voice and let loose his word-hoard pent up within him.”
Various reproachful names for himself came to Sam’s mind, drawn from the Gaffer’s large paternal word-hoard; then it also occurred to him that his master had been right: there had for the present been nothing to guard against.
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