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proverbiologist

proverbiologist noun: a person who studies proverbs.

Noun

proverbiologist (plural proverbiologists)

  1. (rare) A person who studies proverbs.
    • The proverbiologist uses syntactic, dialectal, metric, or linguistic aspects of the proverb to study its origin, spread, and evolution.1976, Dale Boesky, “Proverbs and Psychoanalysis,”, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, volume 45, page 539

Forms of proverbiologist

pluralproverbiologists

Origin of proverbiologist

From proverbiology + -ist.

Questions about proverbiologist

What does proverbiologist mean?
Proverbiologist means a person who studies proverbs.
What part of speech is proverbiologist?
Proverbiologist is a noun.
What is the plural of proverbiologist?
The plural of proverbiologist is proverbiologists.

Words near proverbiologist in the dictionary

  1. proverbially
  2. proverbialness
  3. proverbials
  4. proverbic
  5. proverbing
  6. proverbiologist
  7. proverbiologists
  8. proverbiology
  9. proverbize
  10. proverbized
  11. proverbizes

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