phrasemaker

[freyz-mey-ker]

noun

1. a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.

2. a person who makes catchy but often meaningless or empty statements.

Other Word Forms

• phrasemaking noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of phrasemaker¹

First recorded in 1815–25; phrase + maker

Example Sentences

She goes out of her way not to be a phrasemaker; much of her writing has the murmury, urgent, working-it-out-in-real-time quality of someone writing by hand on a bouncy bus.

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The reporter Earl Mazo described the “phrasemaker” Reece as drawing applause at the 1948 Convention “when he ripped into what he calls the ‘Democrat party’ with lacerating wordage.”

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That mysterious, koan-like statement by the theorist and legendary phrasemaker John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton has stood for half a century as one of the brute pillars of modern physics.

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You’re quite the phrasemaker: “I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.”

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Choice phrasemaker and Hackney laureate Sinclair ventures to the US on the trail of the Beats.

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