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[M - O] - [P - R] - [S - U] - [V - Z]

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​ACYROLOGICAL - incorrect use of words. From 1651

ADOXOGRAPHY - beautiful writing on a subject of no significant importance.

AMORIST is someone who writes about love

AMPHIGOURI - nonsense words or gibberish.

ANALECTS - selections from or parts of a literary work or group of works. Often used as a title. A collection of literary fragments like excerpts or quotes.

ANNALIST - historian who writes annals. A chronicler.
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ANFRACTUOSITY - something twisting and turning

ANOMIA - a difficulty in finding the right words or the inability to remember names

APHASIA - partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, usually due to damage inflicted on the brain by injury or disease.

ARCHAISM - an old word or expression that is no longer used with its original meaning or is only used in specific studies or areas.

ARGONAUT - a seeker of adventure

ARS POETICA - A poem that explains the “art of poetry,” or a meditation on poetry using the form and techniques of a poem.

AUTHORLING - a petty author; an insignificant writer. 1771

BALLADMONGER - a seller or composer of ballads or a poor, inferior poet. This word is first recorded in the period 1590–1600.

BARBARISM - use of nonstandard or foreign speech, the use of a word awkwardly forced into a poem's meter, or unconventional pronunciation

BARD - a professional storyteller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or noble) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.Originally bards were a specific lower class of poet, contrasting with the higher rank known as fili in Ireland and Highland Scotland.
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BARDOLATRY - humorous excessive admiration of Shakespeare

BATTOLOGIST - Someone who repeats the same thing needlessly.

BEE - a sweet writer. From 1753

BELLETRIST - a writer of Belles-lettres. A belles lettres is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing. In the modern sense, it is a label for literary works that do not fall into the major categories such as fiction, poetry, or drama. They write essays, particularly on literary and artistic criticism, written and read primarily for their aesthetic effect.

BELETTER - to serve with letters, to write to. From 1655

BETRAVAIL - to work at; to compose a book, to be the author of, to write. From 1383

BIBLIOBIBULI - people who read too much.

BIBLIOGRAPHER - One trained in the description and cataloging of printed matter and who compiles bibliographies. One who writes or copies books or about books, especially in regard to their authorship, date, typography, editions, etc.; one skilled in bibliography
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BIBLIOCLASM - is the destruction or burning of books.

BIBLIOKLEPT - the one that never gives books back.

BIBLIOPHAGE - Someone who really devours books

BIBLIOPHAGIST - a voracious reader.

BIBLIOPHILE - person who collects or has a great love of books.

BIBLIOPHILIA - a lover of books

BIBLIOPOLE is a seller of books; especially rare books.

BIBLIOSMIA - the love of the smell of old books.

BIBLIOTAPHS - hoard books to themselves and protects their books from others. They don’t loan out their books.

BIBLIOTHECARY - one who collects or maintains collections of books.

BIBLIOTHETIC - Alphabetical order. Genre by genre. Dewey Decimal. No matter how you choose to do it, the adjective bibliothetic refers to the arrangement of books in a library or on a bookshelf. It’s derived from a Greek word meaning “placement” or “arrangement”—which makes it a distant relative of the word thesis.

BILLINGSGATE - coarsely abusive language.

BLOTTER - similar to ‘paper-stainer’ a blotter is a writer who is not doing much more than literally leaving a mark.

BLOVIATE - to speak or write pompously and windily.

BOGGLE-WORDS - hard words, words difficult to pronounce. From the 19th century.

BOO - a ghostwriter. From the 1970s

BOOKER - writer of books

BOOKLORE - knowledge of facts and figures about books, titles and publication details.

BOOKWOMAN - this word has had two meanings. A bookwoman (or a bookman) is someone who loves to read, but a bookwoman can also be a female writer. Many similar sexist terms used to be common, such as ‘authoress’ (a broader term than ‘murdermongress’, a word Ogden Nash used to describe Agatha Christie) and ‘sob sister’ (an advice columnist for the lovelorn, like Lois Lane’s first job in the original Superman comics).

BOUQUINIST - a person who deals in second-hand books. Today, we'd call him a Used Book Salesman.

CACOËTHES LOQUENDI - irresistible urge to talk too much (French)

CACOETHES SCRIBENDI - This phrase comes from the Satires of Roman writer Juvenal and means 'an irresistible desire to write.' The term is borrowed from ancient Greek, where cacoethes means 'bad habit' or 'malignant disease.' Therefore cacoethes scribendi refers to the desire to write as a compulsion, or disease - an addiction for which there is no known cure.

CACOGRAPHER - a bad writer or speller From 1880

CALLIGRAPH - one who writes beautifully; a professional transcriber of manuscripts From 1853.

CAPILOTADE - A story that's hashed together.

CARMEN - Greek for a poem, song or prophecy

CATACHRESTIC - incorrectly used, misapplied, or when one word is improperly substituted for another. From 1656

CATACHRESIS - improper use of words; abuse or perversion of a metaphor. From 1589

CHIMERICAL - produced by a will, fanciful imagination

CHORIZONT - the name for someone who disputes the authorship of a particular writer’s work, and attributes the work to someone else.

CLERISY - a distinct class of authors or literary people. The word was coined in 1818, on model of German ‘clerisei,’ from Late Latin ‘clericia’ related to ‘clericus’ apparently coined by Coleridge, who used it to mean "the learned men of a nation, its poets, philosophers, and scholars.”

CLERISY - a distinct class of literary people.

COLUGRAPHIA - this word can have a dual meaning. The Greek prefix coly means to 'hinder' or 'prevent' and the graphos means to 'write.' Therefore, colygraphia can either be interpreted as the achy writer’s cramp or the dreaded writer’s block. Either way the writer is not writing.

COLYGRAPHIA - this word can have a dual meaning. The Greek prefix ‘coly’ means to 'hinder' or 'prevent' and the word ‘graphos’ means to ‘write.' Therefore, colygraphia can either be interpreted as writer’s cramp or writer’s block. Next time you're explaining to someone that you're suffering from writer's block, tell them you're afflicted with colygraphia instead. It's more likely to get you sympathy.

CONCATENATION - a series of interconnected or independent events

COPROLALIA - uncontrolled, excessive use of obscene or scatological language, sometimes accompanying certain mental disorders

COUPLETEER - one of many terms that alters the name of the type of writing. A coupleteer writes couplets much as an ‘epigrammatarian’ writes epigrams, a ‘legendarian’ writes legends, and a ‘manuscriptor’ writes manuscripts.

CRAMBO-CLINK - also known as crambo-jink, this is a word for poor quality poetry—or, figuratively, a long-winded and ultimately pointless conversation. From the
Scots.

CRAMP-WORD - a word difficult to pronounce or understand; any long, scientific, or uncommon word. From 1687

CRICK-CRACK - words not easily understood. From 1892

CRUCIVERBALIST - crossword-puzzle construct

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