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doryphores

doryphores is the plural of doryphore.

Meaning of doryphore

Noun

doryphore (plural doryphores)

  1. (humorous, rare) A petty pedant, a person who complains about minor mistakes.
    • Often have I tried to supplement my vocabulary by inventing words, such as ‘couth’, or ‘doriphore’, or ‘hypoulic’, feeling that it is the duty as well as the pastime of a professional writer to make two words bloom where only one bloomed before.1952 August 22, Harold Nicolson, Spectator, page 238

Questions about doryphores

What is doryphores the plural of?
Doryphores is the plural of doryphore.

Words near doryphores in the dictionary

  1. dorylomorph
  2. dorylomorphs
  3. doryman
  4. dorymen
  5. doryphore
  6. doryphores
  7. doryphoroi
  8. doryphoros
  9. Dorys
  10. dorzolamide
  11. doré bar

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