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wordmonger|ˈwɜːdˌmʌŋgə(r)|
[f. word n. + monger.]
One who deals in words, esp. in strange or pedantic words, or in empty words without sense or substance. Orig. contemptuous.
1590Tarlton's News Purgat. Ep. Ded. A 2 b, The word⁓mongers of malice, that like the Vipers grew odious to their own kinde. 1628Shirley Witty Fair One v. iv, A pedantical, lousy wordmonger. 1749G. Lavington Enthus. Meth. & Papists (1820) 331 God hath cautioned me against these word-mongers. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. vi. iii. (1866) 813 The word-mongers who could clothe one shivering thought in a hundred thousand garments. 1884Tennyson Becket ii. ii, Diagonalise! thou art a word-monger. 1916Daily News 8 Nov. in E. Weekley Etymol. Dict. Mod. Eng. (1921) 944 Professor Weekley is well known to our readers as the most entertaining of living word⁓mongers. 1981V. Glendinning Edith Sitwell 4 She is a poet of dream and vision, a musical wordmonger.
So ˈwordˌmongering, -ˌmongery.
1879H. N. Hudson Hamlet Pref. p. xiv, Too much time..spent in mere word-mongering and lingual dissection. 1881Max Müller tr. Kant's Critique Pure Reason II. ii. iii. 223 There remains nothing but mere wordmongery. 1903Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Mar. 87/3 Word-mongery has been overdone here and there. |