phrasemann.
/ˈfreɪzmən/, U.S. /ˈfreɪzm(ə)n/ Now rare.
A person who is adept at inventing or using telling phrases; a phrasemonger.Apparently chiefly in echoes of quot. 1798.
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phrasemonger1611
phraser1614
phrase-maker1683
phraseologist1713
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1798 S. T. Coleridge Fears in Solitude 6 The poor wretch..Becomes a fluent phraseman.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. viii. 153 Ye..of the fluent phraseman make your King.
1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. iii. 79 As if any fluent phrase-man were competent to correct the liturgy of the Catholic Church.
1849 H. Melville Mardi II. lxvii. 281 And is this shallow phraseman the renowned Doxodox whom I have been taught so highly to reverence?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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