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grammarnazi

grammarnazi is the rare form of grammar Nazi.

Meaning of grammar Nazi

Noun

grammar Nazi (plural grammar Nazis)

  1. (derogatory, humorous, idiomatic, slang, potentially offensive, see usage note at Nazi) A person who habitually criticizes the grammar and (often) usage in others' speech or writing, often in ways that are sometimes not even linguistically accurate.
    • He had to explain that the grammar Nazi's tantrum was mistaken because interposing an adverb to fall between the components of a to-infinitive is usually not wrong in English grammar.

Forms of grammarnazi

pluralgrammarnazis

Questions about grammarnazi

What is grammarnazi the rare form of?
Grammarnazi is the rare form of grammar Nazi.

Words near grammarnazi in the dictionary

  1. grammarizes
  2. grammarizing
  3. grammarless
  4. grammarlessness
  5. grammarlike
  6. grammarnazi
  7. grammarnazis
  8. grammars
  9. grammary
  10. grammas
  11. grammata

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grammarnazi (page history and authors); grammar Nazi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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