| 单词 | lettermonger |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslettermonger lettermonger n. chiefly depreciative (now rare) = wordmonger n.; a person who deals in letters or words.In quot. 1699 spec.: a forger of literature. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > wordmongering > one who wordmonger1590 lettermonger1592 parolist1604 logodaedalus1611 word-pecker1649 vocabularian1899 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Bodl. copy) Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Haue you any odde shreds of Latine to make this lettermunger a Cockescombe off? 1673 M. Locke Present Pract. Musick 70 A certain kind of Letter-Monger, that with..much of confidence, nothing of Learning; comes a day after the Fair. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 171 Our Letter-monger has Herodotus's very words. a1742 T. Story Jrnl. of Life (1747) 738 The Lord opened a Door of Utterance of many Truths of the Gospel in the Authority of it; where divers false Doctrines of the mercenary, deceitful Letter-mongers were exposed. 1764 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 20 Dec. The public are too competent judes [sic] of right and wrong to be misled by mercenary letter-mongers. 1807 Med. & Physical Jrnl. July 57 My remarks extend only to some petty Letter-mongers, whose genius is confined to a Case. 1893 J. Parker People's Bible XXI. 374 He was a literalist, and the letter-mongers have nearly ruined the whole cause of Christianity. 1994 Guardian 3 Sept. 22/8 Peter Barnes of Milton Keynes, another ace lettermonger, has written disputing my view that you can't expect to make FISHCAKE at Scrabble. < as lemmas |
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