grammaticaster
English
Etymology
grammatic + -aster
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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