Locution is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 203 anagrams from letters in locution (cilnootu).
1400-50; late Middle English Latin locūtiōn- (stem of locūtiō) speech, style of speech, equivalent to locūt(us) (past participle of loquī to speak) + -iōn- -ion
These words revived her moribund career, underscoring the truth that politics is mostly about locution, locution, locution.
But in that he was—to use the usual Flat Creek locution—in that he was "a boss."
He thanked her, and took a mental note of the locution, inquiring in his turn when the rain had ceased.
But in that he was—to use the usual Flat Creek locution—in that he was "a hoss."
Their values are variable, rising and falling according to the individual and the locution.
Of course she was incapable of such a locution, and it was silly of him to have thought otherwise, even momentarily.
We are likely to avoid the locution altogether and to say “Who was it you saw?”
He is hardly alone in using a locution that should nevertheless be retired, a charitable critic might have explained.
He believes that the locution was "possibly imported from the southwest of Ireland."
I am very much mistaken if the locution does not occur elsewhere in Holmes.