| 单词 | anecdote lover | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasanecdote lover  C1.   General use as a modifier, as in  anecdote book,  anecdote collection, etc.; also with participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which anecdote expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in  anecdote-loving,  anecdote lover, etc. ΚΠ 1714    tr.  Anc. & Mod. Libr. 46  				This is an Anecdote Piece [Fr. c'est ici une Pièce Anecdote], of which Historians have had no manner of knowledge. 1787    Public Advertiser 18 Apr.  				He told me the following story... I find a minute of it in my anecdote-book. 1836    Edinb. Rev. July 364  				By no means so explanatory as his anecdote-loving master could desire. 1881    W. D. Adams Treasury Mod. Anecd. Introd. 5  				This is not the kind of thing which the genuine anecdote lover at all cares about. 1883    Nation 		(N.Y.)	 6 Dec. 472/3  				The dialogue is hardly more connected, or original, or artistic than the anecdote column of a country weekly. 1910    Amer. Anthropologist 12 655/1  				Facetious and jesting charms and incantations..from the facetiæ, jest-books, preceptoria, anecdote-collections, sermon-books, etc., of the 16th and 17th centuries and later. 1974    R. MacGillivray Restoration Historians & Eng. Civil War i. 8  				A further disadvantage derived from nearness to the war was distortion as a result of anecdote-telling. 2006    F. Portman King Dork 147  				Mr. Teone's afterschool Gifted and Talented program might have been of some use as an anecdote factory, but that was about it, and I felt I really didn't need the anecdotes at that price. < as lemmas | 
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