calabrasella

[kal-uh-bruh-zel-uh]

cal·a·bra·sel·la

[kal-uh-bruh-zel-uh]
noun
a card game for three persons that is played with a 40-card pack made by removing the eights, nines, and tens from a regular 52-card pack.

Origin:
< Italian calabresella, equivalent to calabres(e) (Calabr(ia) Calabria + -ese -ese) + -ella diminutive suffix (< L)
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Calabrasella has a plethora of syllables.
So is floccinaucinihilipilification. Does it mean:
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S.
the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
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