Feminine

verbloeming

Meaning

  1. (feminine) a euphemistic or masked phrasing, vaguery
  2. (feminine) an excuse, apologetic phrasing, justification
  3. (feminine) a rhetoric figure of speech
  4. (feminine) a fleuron, floral ornament
  5. (feminine) an efflorescence

Concepts

Translations

euphemismus

edebikelam

ευφημισμός

beschönigende Umschreibung

sprachliche Beschönigung

Hüllwort

Hehlwort

Etymology

From verbloemen + -ing.

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