eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious

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From © Michael Quinion 1996-2015, World Wide Words, http://www.worldwidewords.org.

eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious

"This," Quinion notes, "appears ... in modern collections of exotic and unfamiliar words."

Apparently,

eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious

"has never appeared anywhere in print as a serious word", where 'serious' is Griceian.

"We know about it," Quinion adds, where 'knows' is Getterian, "solely because of the folklorist L. Pound.

Pound defines

eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious

as “extra good or fine” and notes, in Dialect Notes, that the expression has been brought from western Oregon by the unnamed person who contributed it.

The problem is Tarskian rather than properly Griceian.

An expression, such as

eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious

Whatever Pound says, has no meaning unless it's part of some 'use' (to use Wittgensteinian parlance). In this case, a relevant utterance (alla Tarski, ""Snow is white" is true iff snow is white"") would be

That's eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious.

-- e.g. Popper thus referring to a theorem by Einstein, or some vintage Leithaberg, a well-known Austrian wine.

Cheers.