Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who contends about words, or who uses words merely as weapons or instruments of contention.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who contends about words.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who starts fights about the meaning of
words .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone given to disputes over words
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Examples
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I was speaking yesterday with our newly-minted editor-in-chief and resident logomachist, Beau Friedlander, whose surname owes its etymology to a crude Alsatian phrase denoting "the cattle are dying," and we were marveling at how lipstick-gate has co-opted all news analyses and shared our mutual contempt for appending any perceived controversy with the suffix "gate."
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I was speaking yesterday with our newly-minted editor-in-chief and resident logomachist, Beau Friedlander, whose surname owes its etymology to a crude Alsatian phrase denoting "the cattle are dying," and we were marveling at how lipstick-gate has co-opted all news analyses and shared our mutual contempt for appending any perceived controversy with the suffix "gate."
bilby commented on the word logomachist
Come now, are there really such people?
July 3, 2009