descamisado

[des-kam-uh-sah-doh; Sp. des-kah-mee-sah-thaw]

des·ca·mi·sa·do

[des-kam-uh-sah-doh; Sp. des-kah-mee-sah-thaw]
noun, plural des·ca·mi·sa·dos [-dohz; Sp. -thaws] .
1.
an extreme liberal of the Spanish revolution 1820–23.
2.
(in Argentina) a worker, especially a poor laborer or factory worker.

Origin:
1815–25; < Spanish: literally, shirtless
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Descamisado has a plethora of syllables.
So is sesquipedalianism. Does it mean:
given to using long words.
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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