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English
Etymology
From the use of such words on apothecaries' jars.
Noun
gallipot word (plural gallipot words)
- (chiefly in the plural) A difficult and obscure word, particularly when used gratuitously to give an appearance of being learned.
1836, Robert Huish, Memoirs of the late William Cobbett, Esq., volume II, London: John Saunders, page 72:[…] and do they think in good earnest, that this last relic of the mummery of monkery, this playing off upon us of a few gallipot words, will make us believe that they are learned.
See also
References
- Cobbett’s Political Register, Volume 11 edited by William Cobbett, 1807, page
- [Francis Grose]; Pierce Egan (1823) “Apothecary”, in Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, , London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, , →OCLC.