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I was browsing through Noman W. Schur's book "2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words" and came across a word attributed to writer H. L. Mencken that describes many AWADers quite well as many of us seem to be avid readers. It is : bibliobibulous meaning "one who gets drunk on books."
Now how can we make a word meaning "one who gets drunk on words?" Could end up our battle cry!
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Now how can we make a word meaning "one who gets drunk on words?"
How about word-besotted? Or, if you're in a more Greco-Latinate mode: verbobibulous, dipsolexic, logokraipalous, methylexic.
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should that be logocrapulous?
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Not since I was doing the coining. Latin crapula 'excessive wine-drinking, intoxication, inebriation' < Greek kraipale 'drinking-bout; intoxication; drunken headache'.  But others might prefer logocræpalous.
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how can we make a word meaning "one who gets drunk on words"?Bibulopalaverous, Wow. BTW, I see that "palaverous" was a "Worthless Word for the Day" selection. palaverous
full of or given to palaver: wordy, verbose Makes sense that bibulopalaverous would be our signature word around here. 
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crapula-kraipale
ah, 'tis those subtleties...
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logocrapulous?Not sure that's what I'd want prnted on the T-shirt
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re logocrapulous: "Not sure that's what I'd want prnted on the T-shirt."Or imprinted on your shoe. Anyone who has ever stepped in a cow pie in a farmer's field would understand your reservations about "logocrapulous", Wow. Reminds me of this little ditty: Little birdy in the sky
Dropped some white wash in my eye
I don't complain and I don't cry
I'm just glad that cows can't fly
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