Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of glosses; a glossarist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A writer of comments.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
writer ofglosses , orcomments .
Etymologies
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gloss + -ist
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Examples
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In his recent commentary (2000), David West points to the remarkable strength of the poet’s voice — no false modesty there, though one might now disagree with the nineteenth-century glossist who found ‘no extravagance but much dignity’ in its tone.
fbharjo commented on the word glossist
true vocation of a wordiehol-ist (morelist...morelistful...morelistless)
February 10, 2012