/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Chronon-hoton-thologos [ch = k]
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A burlesque pomposo in Henry Carey’s farce, so called. Anyone who delivers an inflated address.
“A ldiborontephoscophornio, where left you Chrononhotonthologos?”—H. Carey.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.