(frook-TILL-oh-kwint) An adjective, characterizing illogical, senseless, or eccentric speech or manner of expression. Derived from the Latin words fructus
, meaning “fruit,” and loquor
, meaning “to speak,” and patterned after ‘qrandiloquent.’
Fructiloquence can be thought of as ‘fruity speaking.’ Fructiloquent utterances are not necessarily devoid of all meaningfulness; rather, the hallmark of fructiloquence is a lack of logical presentation that would render the ideas comprehensible. The example below, from Time Cube, far surpasses any verbiage I could devise to exemplify the sense of this word; I trust it will suffice.
“Man evolves from teenager –
in cube metamorphosis
but ignores teenager to worship a male mother,
guised in woman’s garb,
churchman called father.
Adult god is adult crime
upon their own children.”