Peter Sokolowski
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1,660 appearances
105 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
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Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A bibolo is a small household ornament or decorative object.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the Brattleboro reformer.
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One by one the beads and baubles and charms and be belows have been cleaned and polished and now they are being placed on shelves, in jars and containers, in bins,
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in a bathtub in Beadnik's new store on Main Street.
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The English language, it would seem, can't get enough of synonyms for the word trinket, including goo gaw, gym crack, and knick knack.
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Just as lovers of Chotkis can't get enough of such ornamental trifles.
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Lady Charlotte Guest, born in eighteen twelve and died in eighteen ninety five, was just such a lover of baubles and bricabrac.
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Not only was Guest an accomplished linguist, educator, publisher, and philanthropist, she also amassed collections of everything from porcelain to playing cards, which she ultimately donated to museums.
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We also have guests to thank for the first known use in English of the French word for trinket Bibolo, which she recorded in a journal entry in eighteen seventy three while in Paris with these words after three walked up to Lady Hopetone's to amuse her with some of our little bibelows.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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L O Q U A C I O U S.
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Loquacious is an adjective.
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It means liking to talk and talking smoothly and easily.
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someone described as loquacious might also be called wordy, prone to using more words than necessary, or garrulous, meaning tending to talk a lot.
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Here's the word used, in a sentence from Nature Communications.
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Due to their loquacious nature, marmosets have recently become a focus of studies on the revolutionary origin of human speech and language.
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Loquacious undeniably has a poetic ring to it.
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It's been a favorite of the writerly sort since it made its first appearance in English in the seventeenth century, and with poetic license, writers stretched its meaning beyond talkative and especially excessively talkative, to describe such things as the chattering of birds and the babbling of brooks.
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The ultimate source of all this chattiness is loqui, a Latin verb meaning to talk or speak.
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