| 单词 | word-grubber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasword-grubber word-grubber n. a critic, esp. one who is overly exacting about details; (also) a person who uses difficult or obscure words. ΚΠ 1765 G. A. Stevens Celebrated Lect. on Heads (new ed.) 44 From the Tea-table Critic, we proceed to the Learned Critic, or Word-grubber. 1869 W. L. Blackley Word Gossip xv. 211 For nothing possible is improbable to a thorough word grubber. 1926 W. R. Castle Ess. Memory Barrett Wendell 3 They read through microscopes, searching for faults rather than for beauty... They are the word-grubbers of literature, exalting the text above the thought expressed by the text. 1994 B. R. Hopkins Nonprofit Law Dict. Pref. p. ix I wanted to call these brief remarks the ‘Prolegomena’, but they made me stay with ‘Preface’. This process, to my colleagues' dismay, has caused me to become a word-grubber. < as lemmas |
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