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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare, humorous) A petty pedant, a person who complains about minor mistakes..
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.
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.)
Use doryphore when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Doryphore means (rare, humorous) A petty pedant, a person who complains about minor mistakes..
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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.
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