wordsters

Noun

wordster (plural wordsters)

1. One who is skilled at using words; a wordsmith.
   • The toiler toils. The wordster words. And you say all your prayers in words. Toil is always alive. But words are dead.1903 January, H[orace] T[raubel], “Collect”, in Horace Traubel, editor, The Conservator, number 11, Philadelphia, Pa.: Innes & Sons, 200 S. Tenth Street, →OCLC, page 162, column 1
2. One who studies words.
   • Quite how complete or relevant all this information is to professional wordsters remains to be seen, though desktop publishers will find hyphenation rules included […]1988, Language Technology, Amsterdam: INK International, →OCLC, page 53, column 1
3. (derogatory) One who uses words instead of actions; a hypocrite, a verbalist.
   • It is not easy to analyse the personality of the [London County] Council, but it is a sharply-marked personality. […] It despises the wordster and the tonguester. It is, in short, a big committee rather than a Parliament.1909, James Douglas, “Spring Gardens”, in Adventures in London, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, Limited, →OCLC, page 230