anecdotardn.
/ˌanᵻkˈdəʊtəd/, U.S. /ˌænəkˈdoʊdərd/ humorous and somewhat depreciative. Now rare.
A (typically old) person given to recounting anecdotes. Cf. anecdotage n. 1.
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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
1880 Scribner's Monthly Mar. 656/2 Having visited the boat,..having exchanged some witty club-stories with its accomplished anecdotards.
1940 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 17 Mar. 22/4 No tottering old anecdotard is John Christian Rowlandson.
1967 Minneapolis Star 13 Dec. 9 c/2 The anecdotards, whose long-winded funny stories delay you in telling your own funny story.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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