One who is extremely adept at vocabulary, grammar, and the use of literary devices such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, and puns. They are ridiculously good at crossword puzzles and won't let their friends make grammatical mistakes without correcting them. Like mathematicians, but arguably dorkier. They are scientists of communication, researchers of discourse, and developers of wordology. Synonyms: Language Pimp, Grammasshole
Eddie's tongue speaks as golden sweet as honey from the comb; a wordematician if ever there was one.
One who is extremely adept at vocabulary, grammar, and the use of literary devices such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, and puns. They are ridiculously good at crossword puzzles and won't let their friends make grammatical mistakes without correcting them. Like mathematicians, but arguably dorkier. They are scientists of communication, researchers of discourse, and developers of wordology. Synonyms: Language Pimp, Grammasshole
Eddie's tongue speaks as golden sweet as honey from the comb; a wordematician if ever there was one.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)