languagist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A linguist; one who is proficient in languages.
noun
One who discriminates on the basis of language use.
Example Sentences
- ""Oh dear, dear!" said Miss Crocky, admiringly, " he is such a languagist ; isn't he, Miss Norah? I tell him he's thrown away here. His place is at courts, I'm sure.""
- "'French ain't a hurtin' me,' says I, 'it's my English, I guess their French is mostly like that Pasadena woman's Herman's wife was a tellin' me about. Herself an' all her friends thought she was a fine French languagist, an' when she went into a restaurant in Paris the only way she could make the French waiter understand she wanted bread an' butter was a pintin' to it, an' then pintin' to her mouth.'"
- ""Now you just get ahold of yourself, lady, and tell me what's going on. In English. I ain't no languagist, you hear?”"
- "They can do with these all that the languagists claim to do, and more — save English for our children for, by the way they teach English the lifeblood has escaped, only the skeleton remains."
- "Identifying and curbing the activity of such ethnocentric languagist functionaries ought to rank high among Chicano political priorities ."