OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 94

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

/ˌnjuːmə.nəʊ.ʌl.tɹə.maɪ.kɹəʊˌskɒ.pɪkˌsɪ.lɪ.kəʊ.vɒl.keɪ.nəʊ.kəʊ.niˈəʊ.sɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
neumoconiosis
A disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from the eruption of a volcano.
Call it miner's asthma, silicosis, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or black lung—they are all dust diseases with the same symptoms.
I say that it must be the silica dust That we breathed through our mouths and our noses That brought pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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