Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A petty or pitiful grammarian; one who insists upon the minutest grammatical niceties.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun derogatory A pedantic, inferior
grammarian .
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Examples
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“But great writers are fallible!”, cries the grammaticaster*, ignoring the implication in this that the grammaticaster is substantially more aware of the rules of our language than its best writers.
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“But great writers are fallible!”, cries the grammaticaster*, ignoring the implication in this that the grammaticaster is substantially more aware of the rules of our language than its best writers.
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Unfortunately, the loudest grammar snobs are the ones who’ve put the least research into their opinions, and so, for every ten people quietly aware that infinitives can and sometimes should be split, there’s one vocal grammaticaster shouting over them that split infinitives are an abomination in the eyes of Pope.
Led astray by the no-split-infinitives fetish « Motivated Grammar 2009
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Unfortunately, the loudest grammar snobs are the ones who’ve put the least research into their opinions, and so, for every ten people quietly aware that infinitives can and sometimes should be split, there’s one vocal grammaticaster shouting over them that split infinitives are an abomination in the eyes of Pope.
whichbe commented on the word grammaticaster
A petty grammarian; a pretentious grammatical pedant.
May 12, 2008
mtc commented on the word grammaticaster
"Garter tweaker": grammaticaster; a petty or pitiful grammarian sometimes known as a "prescripticaster."
November 9, 2012