Proverbiologist

Full definition of proverbiologist

Noun

1. (rare) A person who studies proverbs.
• 1976, Dale Boesky, "Proverbs and Psychoanalysis," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 45, p. 539:The proverbiologist uses syntactic, dialectal, metric, or linguistic aspects of the proverb to study its origin, spread, and evolution.

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