double-winded

Updated: August 21, 2026

I began in a tone of the deepest indignation "monster and double-winded idiot! dost thou, whom for thine iniquities it has pleased heaven to accurse with a two-fold respimtion dost thou, I say, presume to address me in the familiar language of an old acquaintance?

Edgar Allan Poe - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4