Ploce (adj)
plo-see
(rhetoric) The repetition of a word in an altered or more expressive sense, or for the sake of emphasis.
Late 16th century. From post-classical Latin ploce repetition of the same word in a different sense from ancient Greek πλοκή anything twisted or woven, web, in Hellenistic Greek also used of rhetorical figures from an ablaut variant of the base of πλέκειν to plait.
Example sentences
“”I am stuck on Band-Aid, and Band-Aid’s stuck on me.” is a good example of a ploce”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
