hundred-dollar word

English

Noun

hundred-dollar word (plural hundred-dollar words)

  1. Synonym of ten-dollar word.
    • 1951, Richard Nye Dyer, “Eaglebrook - Pioneer of Elementary School Skiing”, in American Ski Annual and Skiing Journal, page 76:
      Since then nine trails have been added, plus an additional jump, a pair of outing club cabins, and a "ski pavilion" (a hundred dollar word for a covered shed)
    • 1995, Nancy Muir, Nancy Stevenson, Using Word 6 for Windows, →ISBN, page 233:
      An object is a hundred-dollar word for a pretty simple concept: a chunk of information you create and edit in another program and then plop into a Word document.
    • 2008, Joseph W. Shaw, To Honor the Dead, UNM Press, →ISBN, page 78:
      Cantonment, he thought. Now there was a hundred-dollar word he would never have known if he hadn't grown up here.
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