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anecdotist

American  
[an-ik-doh-tist] / ˈæn ɪkˌdoʊ tɪst /
Also anecdotalist

noun

  1. a collector or teller of anecdotes.


Etymology

Origin of anecdotist

First recorded in 1830–40; anecdote + -ist


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He was always being something less or something more: a gossip, an anecdotist or, more often, an essayist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Carson may be the most gifted anecdotist now writing.

From Time Magazine Archive

An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whereupon, it being felt that the rabid anecdotist had been sufficiently rebuked, we all went out to help the veterinary look at Adolph for twenty minutes more.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

The anecdotist adds that from that day Wolfe declined in the favour and confidence of the Commander-in-Chief.

From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith

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