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wordmonger

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word·mon·ger  (wûrdmnggr, -mng-)
n.
A writer or speaker who uses language pretentiously or carelessly.
wordmonger·ing n.
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Noun1.wordmonger - a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning
author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
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Among my favorite wordmongers are those who prowl the lunatic fringes of language, lunatic because the ancients believed that prolonged exposure to the moon (Latin luna) rendered one moonstruck, or daft.
Confessions of a verbivore by Lederer, Richard / Verbatim
In effect, he co-opted orderly Conceptualism for the sake of dynamic messiness, feminism for the sake of a general gender skepticism (which Raymond Pettibon, another imagemaker and wordmonger, also nailed), and found a way to break into the closed conversation of academic late modernism.
Thick and thin by Artforum International
 
 
 
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