wordmongern.

1590 Tarltons Newes out of Purgatorie Ep. Ded. sig. A 2^v The word~mongers of malice, that like the Vipers grew odious to their own kinde.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. v. 13 I have purposely been the larger on this instance, to warn the Reader to take heed of the common cheat of Scholastick Word-mongers.

1788 S. Low Politician Out-witted i. iii. 11 Pleasure and Comfort are words which imply the same thing with me; but..modern critics and fashionable word-mongers have..made a very nice distinction between them.

1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles II. v. 71 Goes she not to meet this smiling fellow—this Saxon—this pleasing wordmonger?

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. vi. iii. 453 The word-mongers who could clothe one shivering thought in a hundred thousand garments.

1916 Daily 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.

1942 E. B. White One Man's Meat 50 All word-mongers, at one time or another, have felt the divine necessity of using their talents.

1961 C. Bukowski Let. 22 Apr. in C. Bukowski & S. Martinelli Beerspit Night & Cursing (2001) 220 I cannot speak on tape for a petty bunch of word-mongers who would really rather be fucked and praised than shape the word.

2005 Standard (St. Catharines, Ont.) (Nexis) 10 Sept. e5 The Canadian wordmonger and humourist taps into more of our foibles, peculiarities, and myths.

1831 E. Biber Henry Pestalozzi iv. 44 The sentence of condemnation pronounced by Pestalozzi upon the word-mongery of all the existing systems.

1881 F. M. Müller tr. I. Kant Critique Pure Reason II. ii. iii. 223 There remains nothing but mere wordmongery.

1966 P. Moloney Plea for Mersey 26 This is pleasant enough word-mongery.