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Meaning of ostrobogulous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1
ˌɒs.tɹəʊˈbɒɡ.jʊ.ləs

Definitions

Slightly risqué or indecent; bizarre, interesting, or unusual.

humorous

Examples

“"The Beast and the Devil tried to hold a serious business conversation, but Vickybird kept chipping in with questions of a purely 'ostrobogulous'* nature until Crowley became so enraged that he turned Vickybird into a zebra, rode him into a zoo, where he remained for two years before regaining human shape."”
“A tissue of ostrobogulous lies, he calls them.”
“He would speak of an ostrobogulous tale or a passage in the classics.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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