proverbiologist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From proverbiology + -ist.
Noun
[edit]proverbiologist (plural proverbiologists)
- (rare) A person who studies proverbs.
- 1976, Dale Boesky, “Proverbs and Psychoanalysis,”, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, volume 45, page 539:
- The proverbiologist uses syntactic, dialectal, metric, or linguistic aspects of the proverb to study its origin, spread, and evolution.
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[edit]References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.