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单词 mataeologue
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mataeologuen.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek μάταιος , -logue comb. form.
Etymology: < ancient Greek μάταιος vain (see mataeology n.) + -logue comb. form. Compare earlier mataeologian n.
Obsolete. rare.
A person who engages in fruitless discourse.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > one who indulges in
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piffler1885
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waffler1959
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 168 Those Sacerdotal-Secular Matæologues of Doway and Lisbon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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