DEIPNOSOPHIST

PRONUNCIATION: (daip-NOS-uh-fist)

MEANING: noun: One skilled at dinner-table conversation.

ETYMOLOGY: After Deipnosophistae (The Deipnosophists), a work from around 200 CE by the Greek writer Athenaeus. From Greek deipnon (meal, dinner) + sophistes (wise man, sophist). Earliest documented use: 1581.
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DIP NO SOPHIST - Scholars shall not be subject to Trial by Drowning to test if they are witchs (or warlocks)

DE I.P. NO SOPH IS - you can't make a second-year student out of Intellectual Property

DEIGN, O SOPHIST - OK, wise guy, let's see how condescending you are now!