anecdotistn.
/ˌanᵻkˈdəʊtɪst/, /əˈnɛkdətɪst/, /ˈanᵻkdəʊtɪst/, U.S. /ˌænəkˈdoʊdəst/, /əˈnɛkdədəst/, /ˈænəkˌdoʊdəst/ Originally: a person who writes, or collects and publishes, anecdota (anecdota n. 1); an anecdotographer. Later more usually: a person given to or skilled in telling anecdotes, an anecdotalist.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > [noun] > writer or teller of anecdotes
storyteller1683
anecdotist?1760
raconteur1831
raconteuse1840
anecdotalist1868
personalist1876
anecdotard1880
magsman1924
?1760 S. Haliburton Mem. Magopico ix. 28 Great and multifold are the Advantages to be reap'd from the Tribe of Matter of Fact Writers, whether Historians, Biographers,..or Anecdotists.
1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. viii. 378 A mere invention of the Roman anecdotists.
1958 M. Elwin Landor viii. 191 The society anecdotist, Captain Gronow, described him as ‘remarkable for his leanness, his appetite, and his conversational powers’.
2006 Daily Tel. 22 Aug. 19/3 The late Alan Pryce-Jones—not the most reliable anecdotist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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