单词	pedantry
释义	pedantped‧ant /ˈpednt/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINpedant Origin: 1500-1600 French pédant, from Italian pedante, perhaps from Latin paedagogus; ➔ PEDAGOGY Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES It is the work of a pedant, and shows no originality. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A right little pedant she can be, when it comes to an intellectual argument. Anyway, Oliver's a pedant. He's a great pedant, Oliver. He claims that he was a little pedant, even as early as the age of five. True pedants add the proviso that an edge can not also be a node. someone who pays too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details, especially someone who criticizes other people in an extremely annoying way:  ‘That’s not exactly what it means.’ ‘Pedant.’—pedantry noun [uncountable]
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