grammaticaster

grammaticaster
A pedantic, inferior grammarian.

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  • Grammaticaster — Gram*mat icas ter, n. [LL.] A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender. [1913 Webster] My noble Neophite, my little grammaticaster. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • grammaticaster — a piddling grammarian Pretenders and Dabblers …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • grammaticaster — A person who is pedantic regarding proper grammar …   Grandiloquent dictionary

  • grammaticaster — grammatˈicaster noun (archaic; see ↑ aster) A piddling grammarian • • • Main Entry: ↑grammar …   Useful english dictionary

  • amateur — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, admirer, aesthete, aficionado, amateurish, apprentice, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, avocational, beginner, bon vivant, booster, buff, bungler, bungling,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • dabbler — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, amateur, coquet, criticaster, dabster, dallier, dilettante, dunce, flirt, fool, fribble, grammaticaster, greenhorn, greeny, half scholar, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, know nothing,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • dilettante — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, admirer, aesthete, aficionado, amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, bon vivant, booster, buff, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur, connoisseur, coquet,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • grammarian — Synonyms and related words: dialectician, etymologer, etymologist, glossarist, glossographer, grammaticaster, grammatist, lexicographer, lexicologist, linguist, linguistic scholar, linguistic scientist, linguistician, orthoepist, paleographer,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • lexicographer — Synonyms and related words: allegorist, annotator, cicerone, clarifier, commentator, critic, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, decoder, definer, demonstrator, demythologizer, dialectician, diaskeuast, dragoman, editor, emendator, emender …   Moby Thesaurus

  • lexicologist — Synonyms and related words: dialectician, etymologer, etymologist, glossarist, glossographer, grammarian, grammaticaster, grammatist, lexicographer, linguist, linguistic scholar, linguistic scientist, linguistician, orthoepist, paleographer,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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