proverbiologist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

proverbiology +‎ -ist

Noun[edit]

proverbiologist (plural proverbiologists)

  1. (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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References[edit]

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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