Wordster

//ˈwɜːdstə// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who is skilled at using words; a wordsmith.

    "The toiler toils. The wordster words. And you say all your prayers in words. Toil is always alive. But words are dead."

  2. 2
    One who studies words.

    "Quite how complete or relevant all this information is to professional wordsters remains to be seen, though desktop publishers will find hyphenation rules included […]"

  3. 3
    One who uses words instead of actions; a hypocrite, a verbalist. derogatory

    "It is not easy to analyse the personality of the [London County] Council, but it is a sharply-marked personality. […] It despises the wordster and the tonguester. It is, in short, a big committee rather than a Parliament."

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"The toiler toils. The wordster words. And you say all your prayers in words. Toil is always alive. But words are dead."

Etymology

From word + -ster.

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