philosophunculist

plural philosophunculists

1. rareA minor or insignificant philosopher; someone who claims philosophical expertise that they do not possess.First known use 19th c.

   But you know, or should know, that I am a senior philosophunculist on active duty.

   1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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   The unsettled races of the north, constituting the Chartists, are Scotch philosophunculists and Irish savages, or the children of such.

   1840 May, Fraser's Magazine, volume 21, page 588

   Cunningham's brilliant explication of ‘glassie Essence’ and related matters first appeared in ELH, 19 (1952), see esp. p. 266, but has been ignored by those whom Robert Burton would call the philosophunculists of the academy as well as by most students of Shakespeare.

   1991, Edward W Tayler, Donne's Idea of a Woman, p. 156 n. 7

   However, you should never be a philosophunculist (Go look it up) to succeed in your business ventures.

   2010, Bob Behrent, Planes, Pranks and Pepto-Bismol