Meanings
- not comparableInterjectional.
Students lapse to interjectural speech, gibberish, mimic any dialect, brogue, defect and affectation of speech.
1969, Granville Stanley Hall, Adolescence, volume 2, page 4032 more examples
Sir, in my life I never ſavv an elderly gentleman more aſtoniſhed! He ſtarted back tvvo or three paces, rapt out a dozen interjectoral oaths, and asked vvhat the devil had brought you here!
1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 17The Science of Language teaches us not only that there can be no concept without a word, but that every word of our language, (with the exception of purely interjectural and imitative words) is based on a concept.
1873, Friedrich Max Müller, Lectures on Mr. Darwin's Philosophy of Language, from Fraser's Magazine, Volumes 7-8, reprinted in 1996, Roy Harris (editor), Origin Of Language, page 219
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