[Air-l] when more is too much
Barry Wellman
wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Mon Apr 4 17:14:01 PDT 2005
As usual, Yiddish has a word for it:
ONGEPOTCHKET: Messed up, slapped together without form, excessively and
unesthetically decorated. OY-YOY-YOY: An exclamation of sorrow and
lamentation. ...
www.sbjf.org/sbjco/schmaltz/yiddish_phrases.htm
If you don't like that, what about hyper-baroque
Barry
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