proverbiologist

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noun

A person who studies proverbs.

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Meanings

nounproverbiologist (plural proverbiologists)

plural proverbiologists

  1. rareA person who studies proverbs.

    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,”, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, volume 45, page 539

Origin

From proverbiology + -ist.

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