Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who contends about words, or who uses words merely as weapons or instruments of contention.
Wiktionary
- n. One who starts fights about the meaning of words.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who contends about words.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone given to disputes over words
Examples
“I was speaking yesterday with our newly-minted editor-in-chief and resident logomachist, Beau Friedlander, whose surname owes its etymology to a crude Alsatian phrase denoting "the cattle are dying," and we were marveling at how lipstick-gate has co-opted all news analyses and shared our mutual contempt for appending any perceived controversy with the suffix "gate.”
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
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bilby Come now, are there really such people? Jul 3, 2009