Grammaticaster

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A pedantic, inferior grammarian. derogatory

    "Even Eliot who is too fine an artist to allow himself to be exploited by a blockhead grammaticaster turns recently toward 'one definite false note' in his quatrains,"

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"Even Eliot who is too fine an artist to allow himself to be exploited by a blockhead grammaticaster turns recently toward 'one definite false note' in his quatrains,"

Etymology

From grammatic + -aster.

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