(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.’ So 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 long-running website Time Cube was a classic example.