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俚语 psychopompous
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psychopompous

A combination of psychopath (a person who suffers from mental instability to the point of insanity) and pompous (pretentious, commonly used to refer to someone who speaks in a periphrastic manner).
psycopath, psychopomp, pompous, insane
Teacher: "White privilege blah blah I love to hear myself talk blah blah In Huck Finn, Mark Twain uses the philosophical and socioeconomical meaning of territory to convey a message about the corrupt morals of western society and to symbolize the injustices of racism blah blah I bought a stun gun over the weekend blah blah white privilege."
Class: You're so psychopompous. Stop talking.

Psychopomp

Literally means "guide of the soul". A psychopomp is a conductor of people's souls who have passed, on escorting them to an afterlife. Depending on your beliefs, can be a god such as Odin or Anubis, an animal spirit such as a Raven, an Angel or Valkyrie, a loved one who has crossed over, or perhaps the most well known psychopomp of them all...the Grim Reaper.
In Greek mythology Charon was the ferryman of Hades, conducting the souls of the dead, as any psychopomp would, to their destination.
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