单词 | verbotomist |
释义 | > as lemmasverbotomist 1. Used as an initial element with the sense ‘word’, ‘verbal’, ‘relating to words’, etc., in various isolated coinages (formed on both words and combining forms), often for humorous effect, as verbologist, verbology, verbomania, verbomaniac, verbophile, verbophobe, verbophobia, verbotomist, verbotomy, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > love of words verbomania1791 logolatrya1834 epeolatry1860 logophilia1980 1791 St. James's Chron. 22 Sept. They assailed me with such contumacious verbology, that I took my hat and said, [etc.]. 1802 (title) Hints to Legislators, by W. P. Russel, Verbotomist. 1805 W. P. Russel (title) Verbotomy, or a classical improved vocabulary..of the English language. 1821 J. Gray Mediatorial Reign Son of God xviii. 324 If a verbologist chuses to quibble on words, he can do so to the end of the world. 1862 L. M. Goldsborough Let. 27 June in Official Rec. Union & Confederate Navies War of Rebellion (U.S. Naval War Rec. Office) (1898) 1st Ser. VII. 514 I am neither particularly fastidious about unimportant concerns nor prone to verbo-casuistry. 1876 W. Mathews Words xiii. 316 The philologist, unless he has much native good sense, and rules his inclinations with an iron rod, is apt to become a verbomaniac. 1912 Times of India 12 July 9/3 A book is about to be published by Professor Ossip Lourie..on the victims of verbomania. 1932 Times of India 20 May 8/7 The men who stand as Safeguards, or as some of those who suffer from the prevailing Verbophobia, prefer to call them, Securities, between Bombay and chaos. 1967 E. Dale in J. A. Figurel Vistas in Reading (Internat. Reading Assoc.) 19/1 These youngsters are evidently becoming verbophiles, not the verbophobes often developed out of over-formalized, dull vocabulary study. 1977 J. Garvin in D. Ó Muirithe Eng. Lang. in Ireland 112 Finnegans Wake abounds in Anglo-Irish idiom..but it is subsumed into..‘slanguage’ which leaves the book adrift in a polyglottic sea of verbomania. 1984 Sunday Tel. 19 Feb. 9/1 Since young Neil has been struck down with verbo-enteritis, Hattersley has been cast in a protective role. < as lemmas |
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