fabulist

noun
/ˈfæbjəlɪst/

Etymology

Borrowed from French fabuliste. By surface analysis, fable + -ist, or, by surface analysis, fabula + -ist. Compare fabular.

  1. borrowed from fabuliste

Definitions

  1. A person who writes, tells, or extensively studies fables.

    • That great fabulist and philosopher Aesop illustrated it by his fable of the bundle of sticks[…]
    • La Fontaine, the French fabulist, has a tale, La Mandargore, dealing with the erotic impact of the root.
  2. A liar.

    • The Infowars fabulist has been funneling millions out of his empire while claiming bankruptcy, the Sandy Hook families suing him say.

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Derived

fabulistic

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fabulist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA