Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who deals in marvels; a marvel-monger.
- n. One versed in teratology.
Wiktionary
- n. teratology A scientist specialising in teratology.
Examples
“And he was what you'd call a teratologist: he looked at all of the monstrosities and mutations to find rules and laws, rather than looking at the norms.”
“I got my contributor copy of Phantom, which also includes stories by various future-of-horror types like teratologist and readingthedark and Mike Cisco.”
“Thanks to teratologist, the greatest sentence I've read all day”
“[233] I do not present this view as more than a picture which helps us to realize the actual phenomena which we witness in homosexuality, although I may add that so able a teratologist as Dr. J.W. Ballantyne considers that”
“Taruffi, the celebrated Italian teratologist, in speaking of the subject, says:”
“The concerns, which came to light after the thalidomide scandal, led to the drug being extensively studied, said Dr. Tina Chambers, a teratologist at the University of California,”
“teratologist: "I understand you have a job to do, but get a better job where you don't have to invade people's privacy!”
“teratologist: Ok, so with a crack team of five people and google, they talked this girl into calling the poor census taker back and complaining about it being "invasive".”
“teratologist: There's three people in the office and they're all engaged in an epic struggle to figure out what the hell the census is!”
“teratologist: A loud person in the office behind me is confused by the fact that census people are legally allowed to stop by your house and that this does not constitute "stalking" or even an unusual situation.”
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Perdido Street Station
Words that I had to look up, from the Weird Fiction book Perdido Street Station by China Miéville.
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