proverbiologist
English
Etymology
proverbiology + -ist
Noun
proverbiologist (plural proverbiologists)
- (rare) A person who studies proverbs.
- 1976, Dale Boesky, "Proverbs and Psychoanalysis," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 45, p. 539:
- The proverbiologist uses syntactic, dialectal, metric, or linguistic aspects of the proverb to study its origin, spread, and evolution.
- 1976, Dale Boesky, "Proverbs and Psychoanalysis," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 45, p. 539:
Related terms
- proverbiology
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.