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现代英语词汇学概论 Lexicology What is the longest word in English? Smiles honorificabilitudinitatibus ---- The longest word used by Shakespear (in Love’s Labour lost) consists of 27 letters, meaning “with no honourableness”) floccinaucinihilipilification ---- The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary contains 29 letters, which was first used in 1741 and later by Sir Walter Scott, meaning “deciding something is worthless”) praetertransubstantiationalistically --- Contermporary novelist Mark McShane used a long word of 36 letters in his novel Untimely Ripped, meaning:”the act