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sottisier

sottisier noun: a compilation of banal, hackneyed, or otherwise objectionable snippets of text from various authors.

Noun

sottisier (plural sottisiers)

  1. (uncommon) A compilation of banal, hackneyed, or otherwise objectionable snippets of text from various authors.
    • I had intended to provide the book derisively with an appendix, vermiform. Papa Flaubert compiled a sottisier, I also compiled a sottisier. I do not yield a jot in my belief that such compilations are useful, I concede that there may be no need of reprinting mine at this moment. At any rate the...1934, Ezra Pound, “Date Line”, in Make It New, London: Faber & Faber, page 16
    • Frequently he brought his points home with topical allusions: timely newspaper clippings or public utterances, constituting a sort of sottisier or scrapbook of contemporary fatuities.1961, Harry Levin, Irving Babbitt and the Teaching of Literature, Harvard University Press, page 10

Forms of sottisier

pluralsottisiers

Origin of sottisier

Borrowed from French sottisier.

Questions about sottisier

What does sottisier mean?
Sottisier means a compilation of banal, hackneyed, or otherwise objectionable snippets of text from various authors.
What part of speech is sottisier?
Sottisier is a noun.
What is the plural of sottisier?
The plural of sottisier is sottisiers.

Words near sottisier in the dictionary

  1. sotting
  2. sottish
  3. sottishly
  4. sottishness
  5. sottishnesses
  6. sottisier
  7. sottisiers
  8. sotto
  9. sotto voce
  10. sotto voci
  11. sottocopied

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