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

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.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

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

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2014

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

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2013

The humour was sometimes juvenile, and the shows lacked structure, but he was already a great phrasemaker and his outsider, bruised-idealist worldview was compelling.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2012

Here the phrasemaker is king; as the one-eyed is king in the empire of the blind.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 by Various