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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

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The ancient anecdotist further says that "the thing was not known until after Plautianus's death."

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred

A man who was continuously firing off adages and axioms would be as terrible an infliction as the inveterate anecdotist or the everlasting pun-producer.

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward)