How common are some uncommon words? Not popular (closed)
I am trying to recall a word describing or rather defining a person who is extremely clever in speech; overly intelligent and often intentionally misleading or as not to directly address something in particular while speaking. (I will write more in future) It starts with the letter R and refers to a woman or men
(generally).
A roundaboutarian might that be? Roundaboutation is a very old-fashioned humorous term for circumlocution ( Oxford Dictionary ) which is
The use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive ( Oxford Dictionaries, circumlocution )
As for generally applying to women, I’ve primarily encountered roundaboutation in Regency romance novels ( this blogger notes the same phenomenon), so mainly used by women, and there is at least one reference to a (possibly fictitious
