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Webster 1913 Edition
Grammaticaster
Gram-mat′icas′ter
,Noun.
[LL.]
A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
My noble Neophite, my little
grammaticaster
. B. Jonson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Grammaticaster
GRAMMAT'ICASTER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
grammaticaster
grammaticaster
English
Noun
grammaticaster (plural grammaticasters)
- (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
- 1997, Michael Grant, T.S. Eliot, page 86:
- Even Eliot who is too fine an artist to allow himself to be exploited by a blockhead grammaticaster turns recently toward 'one definite false note' in his quatrains,
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