Doryphore
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Doryphore is a noun meaning (rare, humorous) A petty pedant, a person who complains about minor mistakes.
Meaning
(rare, humorous) A petty pedant, a person who complains about minor mistakes.
Example Sentences
The idiomatic implications of such a word as doryphore in his own text is left for the ignorant to guess. (It means a Colorado beetle and, hence, a pest.)
Often have I tried to supplement my vocabulary by inventing words, such as ‘couth’, or ‘doriphore’, or ‘hypoulic’, feeling that it is the duty as well as the pastime of a professional writer to make two words bloom where only one bloomed before.
Word Forms
- doryphores
- doriphore
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dorey, doree, dork, doter, dufus, dorkus.
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