[Ads-l] verbigerate

[Jonathan Lighter]

OED has only one ex. of this psychiatric term from 1892.

1930 A. R. Thompson in _Saturday Review_ (Jan.) 467: Gertrude Stein has
amused a blase' world by writing like a verbigerating maniac.

JL

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