thunder word

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

After the first such word, constructed of words for thunder in various different languages.

Noun

thunder word (plural thunder words)

  1. (literature) Any of the ten 100-letter words occurring in James Joyce's experimental 1939 novel Finnegans Wake.
    Synonyms: thunder, thunderclap
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