outpedant

English

Etymology

out- +‎ pedant

Verb

outpedant (third-person singular simple present outpedants, present participle outpedanting, simple past and past participle outpedanted)

1. (transitive) To surpass in pedantry.
   • 2009 October 4, Ammon Shea, “Error-Proof”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     So I say outpedant the pedants, and allow yourself to gluttonously revel in the linguistic improprieties of yore as you familiarize yourself with the nearly unique enormity of the gloriously mistaken heritage that our literature is comprised of.