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Can You Correctly Define These Words That James Joyce Made Up?

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James Joyce

On February 2, 1882, legendary modernist writer James Joyce was born in the suburbs of Dublin, Ireland. The author of UlyssesFinnegans Wake, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is best known for his stream-of-consciousness writing style, full of onomatopoeia, playfulness, and some pretty out there made-up words. To celebrate our favorite Dubliner, we put together a little quiz with the weirdest Joyceisms we could find -- see if you can guess the definitions of these crazy Joyceisms below!

 

 


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