Proverbiologist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who studies proverbs. rare
"The proverbiologist uses syntactic, dialectal, metric, or linguistic aspects of the proverb to study its origin, spread, and evolution."
Example
More examples"The proverbiologist uses syntactic, dialectal, metric, or linguistic aspects of the proverb to study its origin, spread, and evolution."
Etymology
From proverbiology + -ist.
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