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INTRODUCTION
​[A - C] - [D - F] - [G - I] - [J - L]
[M - O] - [P - R] - [S - U] - [V - Z]

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​DEATH-HUNTER - this sounds dark, but it’s just another type of scribbler; specifically, an obituary writer. Death-hunter has also referred to professions such as undertaker and corpse-robber.

DEIPNOSOPHIST - someone highly skilled in the art of small talk.

DEPAYSEMENT - when someone is transported into a new world.

DIACHRONIC - concerned with how something develops through time.

DICKY-BIRD a word; usually used in negative contexts. 1932 Brit. rhyming slang.

DONTOPEDALOGY - the aptitude for putting one's foot in one's mouth.

DRAMATIST - one who writes plays; a playwright.

DRAMATURGE - a writer or adapter of plays; a playwright.

DYSGRAPHIA - This is a problem in which one finds it hard to write legibly. The author Agatha Christie was reportedly one who suffered from it.

DÉJÀ-LU - If déjà-vu is the unusual feeling that something has already come to pass, then déjà-lu is its literary cousin. Derived from the French verb lire, it refers to the discomforting feeling that you’re reading something that you’ve already read.

EARLY BIRD - slang for a word. 1937 British rhyming slang.

EGGCORN - Coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum in 2003 as an informal term for a word or phrase that is used in error, usually because it sounds similar to the original word or phrase.

ELEGIST - the composer of an elegy, a mournful poem lamenting the dead.

ELUCUBRATION - Reading or studying by candlelight—or put another way, reading by artificial light after dark—is called elucubration. Someone who does precisely that is an elucubrator or, as Shakespeare preferred, a candle-waster.

EMBOLOLALIA - interpolation of meaningless sounds or words into speech. mogigraphia writing with difficulty.

ENCOMIUM - means to celebrate. It’s a speech, poem, or other text written in praise of a specific person or thing. Writers use elevated language and praise for their object and apply very strong terms.

ENCYCLOPEDIST - a person who writes for or works to compile an encyclopedia.

EPANORTHOSIS - taking back your words after thinking better of it

EPEOLATRY - means ‘the worship of words’; it first appears in an 1860 book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior.

EPIGRAMMATARIAN - one who writes epigrams

EPISTOLARY - comes from a Greek word, epistolē, which means “letter.” Epistolary is a literary genre that pertains to storytelling through letters, journals, and diary entries. Though the usual formats of epistolary are letters, writers sometimes use newspaper clippings, diary entries, emails, blogs, radio broadcast, and recordings.

ESPRIT de L’ESCALIER - A witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations defines esprit de l'escalier as, "An untranslatable phrase, the meaning of which is that one only thinks on one's way downstairs of the smart retort one might have made in the drawing room." (French)

ESQUIVALIENCE - A copyright or plagiarism trap.

ETYMOLOGICON - a dictionary or work on the etymologies of the words in a language. From 1645

ETYMOLOGY- the history of a linguistic form (word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.

EUSYSTOLISM - use of initials, instead of full words, as a euphemism, often to avoid speaking harsh words.

EUTONY is the pleasantness of the sound of a word.

EXEGESIS - interpretation of a word

EXORDIUM - an introduction to a speech

EXPATIATE - to speak or write at length (used with on or upon)

FAKE A SCREEVE- to write any letter or other paper 1812

FALSE WRITER - one who writes incorrectly -1300

FANTAST - a fantastic writer; one who aims at eccentricity of style 1873

FARCEUR - one who writes a farce.

FEATHER-DRIVER - a quill-driver; a hack writer; a clerk. 1713

FILI - members of an elite class of poets in Ireland and Scotland, up until the Renaissance.

FINIFUGAL - hating endings; of someone who tries to avoid or prolong the final moments of a story, relationship or some other journey

FLADGE WRITER - writer of pornographic literature

FLORILEGIUM - a collection of literary pieces - an anthology.

FOSSIL WORD - a word that is obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom. Fossil status can also occur for word senses and for phrases. An example for sense is 'navy' in 'merchant navy', which means 'commercial fleet' (navy is obsolete elsewhere). An example for phrase is 'in point' (relevant), which is used in larger phrases like 'case in point' which is rarely used outside of a legal context.

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