Polyphloisbic

Origin

Related to the Ancient Greek πολύφλοισβος (polyphloisbos, "loud‐roaring").

Full definition of polyphloisbic

Adjective

1. (of the sea) noisy, roaring, thundering"'Will Hero’s Tower crumble under 15-inch guns? Will the sea be polyphloisbic and wine dark and unvintageable?'" --Rupert Brooke, en route to the Bosporus, as quoted by William Manchester in his Churchill biography, The Last Lion, page 518.