gallipot word

== English == === Etymology === From the use of such words on apothecaries' jars. === Noun === gallipot word (plural gallipot words) (chiefly in the plural) A difficult and obscure word, particularly when used gratuitously to give an appearance of being learned. ==== See also ==== apothecary's Latin inkhorn term talk like an apothecary ==== References ==== Cobbett’s Political Register, Volume 11 edited by William Cobbett, 1807, page [Francis Grose]; Pierce Egan (1823), “Apothecary”, in Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, […], London: […] Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], →OCLC.