Meaning of logodaedalus | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“What had the ruffian café logodaedalus taught me?”

“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.”

“For example, Iain Gale of the Independent wrote of “the logodaedalus's universal sentence, 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,", which uses all the letters of the alphabet.”

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

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