Tuesday 22nd March 2016
Wordmonger \ [wurd-muhng-ger,
-mong-]
noun
1. a writer or speaker who uses words pretentiously or with careless disregard for
meaning.
Quote
He lectured with consummate elegance, in a pungent and pure Spanish--he had begun his university career teaching the classics of the Golden Age,
He lectured with consummate elegance, in a pungent and pure Spanish--he had begun his university career teaching the classics of the Golden Age,
which he had thoroughly mastered, and traces of this mastery remained in
his prose and in the precision and magnificence with which he expressed
himself-- yet he was not, even remotely, the garrulous professor, an
empty-headed wordmonger who listens to
himself talk.
Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane, A Fish in the Water, 1994
Origin
Wordmonger entered English in the late 1500's. The word monger means
"a dealer in or trader of a commodity" or "a person who is involved with
something in a petty or contemptible way" and it is frequently used in
combination, as in the terms fishmonger and gossipmonger.
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