say
verb (used with object)
to utter or pronounce; speak.
sayer
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a word derived from
say.
Example Sentences
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“She’s an executor and a doer, not just a sayer and a talker,” Ms. Winfrey said during a phone interview.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2018
Salvatore Caputa, a self-proclaimed sayer and former policeman from Sicily, drew pilgrims from Germany, Austria and Italy, some on crutches and in wheelchairs.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2017
Footnote: Can a reader assist in identifying the sayer of the following remark?
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2014
Belgian Demographer Jacques Mertens de Wilmars is the nay sayer.
From Time Magazine Archive
He loved a jest almost as well as a dinner, and would rather have been quoted as the sayer of a good thing than as the doer of a great one.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
