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Webster 1913 Edition


Grammaticaster

Gram-mat′icas′ter

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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.
[L.] A low grammarian; a pretender to a knowledge of grammar; a pedant.

Definition 2024


grammaticaster

grammaticaster

English

Noun

grammaticaster (plural grammaticasters)

  1. (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,