单词 | dictionary-monger |
释义 | > as lemmasdictionary-monger dictionary-monger n. a lexicographer; a person who has dealings with dictionaries. ΚΠ 1758 J. Reed Madrigal & Trulletta i. i. 3 I cannot..forbear taking notice of the negligence of our dictionary-mongers, in omitting the explanation of the word intire; or, as it is frequently written, entire, in the sense I have now used it. 1818 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. 27 After the fashion of certain dictionary-mongers who ring the changes upon two words. 2008 J. Garth in S. Caldecott & T. Honegger Tolkien's Lord of Rings 25 Tolkien was already an inveterate dictionary-monger; his sole contribution to Exeter's undergraduate suggestions book was for the purchase of ‘a good English dictionary’. < as lemmas |
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