thunder word

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thunder word (plural thunder words)

  1. (literature) Any of the ten 100-letter words occurring in James Joyce's experimental 1939 novel Finnegans Wake, the first of which is constructed of words for thunder in various different languages.
    Synonyms: thunder, thunderclap