batrachomyomachianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

batrachomyomachian (comparative more batrachomyomachian, superlative most batrachomyomachian)

1. (まれに) Petty (chiefly of a quarrel).
   • 1933, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Earl Leslie Griggs, Philip Hamilton McMillan, Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     ...sounded throughout to my own ears as a Batrachomyomachian battle between the croaks and the squeaks...

   • 1971, Edwin Harrison Cady, The Light of Common Day: Realism in American Fiction:

     The batrachomyomachian cure for the superhuman ego is to chop it off at the knees and cut it down to a human, preferably humane, level.