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pedant

noun
/ˈpɛdənt/

Etymology

From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with unrelated Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.

  1. derived from pedante — “a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”
  2. borrowed from pedant

Definitions

  1. A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding…

    A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.

  2. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

  3. A teacher or schoolmaster.

    • I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Pedantic.

    2. To be or act as a pedant.

      • […] as any occasion of going behond^([sic – meaning beyond]) the sea with sombody, or pedanting in some Gentlemans house, &c., for clergy-employment I will accept of none.
      • Tediously he pedanted, hedging around concerning the Perfect State, eventually coming out into the open with his own private Perfect State plan.
      • ‘Most people in this country aren’t Christian, the standard package should not be Christian,’ Gerrard pedanted.

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Derived

outpedant, pedancy, pedantess, pedantic, pedantical, pedantise, pedantism, pedantize, pedantly, pedantocracy, pedantocrat, pedantry

Vish — recursive loop

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