Verbivore
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who has an enjoyment of words and wordplay. humorous
Etymology
From Latin verbum (“word”) + Latin vorax, from vorō (“devour”), on the pattern of herbivore and carnivore; coined in the early 1980s by Richard Lederer.
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