phrasemaker

American  

[freyz-mey-ker] / ˈfreɪzˌmeɪ kər /

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.

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Other Word Forms

• phrasemaking noun

Etymology

Origin of phrasemaker

First recorded in 1815–25; phrase + maker

Example Sentences

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.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2016

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

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2013

College football, beset by cheating scandals, had many powerful enemies but perhaps no one was a more fetching phrasemaker than Hutchins, who in 1929 became the university’s fifth president.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2011

He was distinguish- ed as an erudite pundit, a writer of stylish prose and a lively phrasemaker.

From The Guardian • May 9, 2010

And the pleasure of seeing herself as rebel and phrasemaker was no less keen than the pleasure of goodness.

From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel