Logodaedalus

Quick meaning: Logodaedalus is a noun meaning A wordsmith; one who uses language with cleverness and skill.

Meaning

A wordsmith; one who uses language with cleverness and skill.

Example Sentences

What had the ruffian café logodaedalus taught me?

Yet this enterprise was a slippery one; fictitious etymologies and overclever wordplay were the province of the logodaedalus: a dangerously cunning wordsmith.

Mr. Auslander is a logodaedalus — a wizard of words — whose adjectives possess an unerring salience, whose vigor is as undinted as he bronze of a Thracian shield.

There are digressions on literature and the cinema and the tarot pack and crap-shooting and — above all, since Anthony Burgess has ever been a logodaedalus — language.

Word Forms

• logodaedaluses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include logodaedalist, logolept, wordsmith, logomaniac, wordster, linguist.

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