Meaning of doryphore | Babel Free

Definitions

A petty pedant, a person who complains about minor mistakes.

humorous, rare

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Examples

“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.)”

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