New word: the frenzy!

Sunday May 25, 2008 @ 01:44 PM (UTC)

From the comments at Pam’s House Blend comes a fabulously evocative new piece of vocabulary:

corybantic: frenzied, ecstatic, unrestrained; a reference to Phrygian devotees of Cybele, the Korybantes.

That is high-quality sesquipedalianism.

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