| 单词 | word-catcher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasword-catcher word-catcher n. (a) a person who catches or cavils at words, a petty or carping critic (now rare); (b) a person who catches or makes a collection of words. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > lexicographer dictionary-maker1567 dictionarist1617 lexicographer1658 word-catcher1659 dictionary writer1742 dictionarian1797 lexicographista1843 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > critic > captious plucker-atc1500 pick-fault1544 pick mote1549 trip-taker1556 mome1563 Momus1563 Zoilus1565 find-fault1567 caviller1574 carper1579 sheep-biter?1589 Zoilist1594 momist1597 word-catcher1659 knocker1898 crabber1909 kvetch1936 tearer-downer1942 nitpicker1951 kvetcher1968 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 134 Had this word-catcher searched into Antiquity he might have seen Clemens thus bespeaking the Corinthians. 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 166 The Word-catcher that lives on syllables. 1835 R. Garnett Philol. Ess. (1859) 8 Of this sort of knowledge—the very foundation of all rational etymology—our word-catchers [sc. lexicographers] do not seem to have had the smallest tincture. 1836 Southern Literary Messenger 2 111/2 We knew a vagrant word-catcher to have in his list of Virginianisms Good bye t' ye, a phrase purely Shakspearian. 1883 A. B. Muzzey Reminisc. & Memorials Men of Revol. xx. 346 ‘Everett’, he once said to me, ‘is a great word-catcher’. 1978 Amer. Speech 53 191 We must not be content to define our standard either by the shibboleths of word-catchers or by the blind practice of the powerful. 2002 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 28 Aug. 46 Sproutarians, the wordcatcher in me was intrigued to discover, confine their diet to sprouted seeds, bean sprouts, wheat and broccoli. < as lemmas |
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