polyphloisbic

== English == === Alternative forms === polyphloesboean, polyphloisboian === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολύφλοισβος (polúphloisbos, “loud‐roaring”). === Adjective === polyphloisbic (comparative more polyphloisbic, superlative most polyphloisbic) (poetic) Of the sea, noisy, roaring, thundering. 1915, Rupert Brooke, letter to Violet Bonham Carter, quoted in William Manchester, The Last Lion, page 518. Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?