Oxford dongle • n. (grammar) the third—or greater—and final parenthetical—or appositive—in a litany of asides—characteristically punctuated with em-dashes—in a single sentence; such a sentence's author—or—more colloquially—anyone given to excessive digressions—discursive or expository—typically pedantic—within what could have been a simple—or otherwise straightforward—utterance; also, the Oxford Dongles (medicine) a class of speech—or neurolinguistic, for that matter—pathologies marked by digressive flights of stilted, lurching, and fragmentary—arrhythmic generally—speech, wherein the sufferer is compelled to utter every minute detail—often embarking on meandering—and, according to the prevailing research, inconsequential—tangents merely to proffer scanty—though agonizingly verbose—context to an already dull as fuck story.

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