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
Whan they were agreedde, what he shuld haue for his labour, the scoffer sayde to the man: holde! eate this rounde pellet, and I warant thou shalte be a south sayer.
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by William Carew Hazlitt
