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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread have definition; looking for word #66184 04/18/2002 4:04 PM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1 Skokie, IL bowhaus stranger bowhaus stranger Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1 Skokie, IL I'm looking for a word that describes someone who tends to elaborate or unpack the minutia of a large issue in order to flaunt their knowledge. I'm not sure "pedantic" quite captures this essance. Can anyone come up with anything better? Thanks Copy Link to Clipboard "Less is more" #66185 04/18/2002 4:11 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York (just peeking in) I see your point, Bauhaus, but I don't have the word. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66186 04/18/2002 4:15 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park Cliff Claven? my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66187 04/18/2002 4:25 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear bowhaus: A very fine challenge. We have all known somebody like this. I'll be talking to myself for hours about this one. Perhaps a coinage from scholar and orator: "scholorator" Or perhaps from didactic and dictator: "didactitator" I ran into "didact" as synonym for "pedagogue" didactorator Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66188 04/18/2002 4:35 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US slithy toves enthusiast slithy toves enthusiast Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 320 Sarasota, Florida, US I don't think hairsplitting is exactly right in this context, but it comes close. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66189 04/18/2002 4:53 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA bloviating grandiloquent euphuistic k Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66190 04/18/2002 5:17 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 pettifogger: 2. one who quibbles over trivia. Not quite what you're looking for, perhaps, because it is more typically to distract than to flaunt. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66191 04/18/2002 5:57 PM Anonymous Unregistered Anonymous Unregistered sciolist (one with a pretentious attitude of scholarship; superficial knowledgeability.) might work. or in a more figurative sense: brummagemer (Cheap and showy; meretricious--Alteration of BIRMINGHAM, England (from the counterfeit coins made there in the 17th century)) or clinquant Imitation gold leaf; tinsel; glitter. (all def's courtesy of AHD, via atomica) FWIW, my first choice would've been bloviator, since it's just such a cool word (hi, hyla!), but someone already mentioned it. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66192 04/18/2002 6:06 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... picayunish could describe someone concerned with trivia. But I, too, like bloviating to describe the expression of such a person best of all. And, to beat it all, have heard myself bloviating so many times and realized later, with regret, that that was exactly what I'd been doing! But picayune is a good word for trivial things, and picayunish is a comical adjective form in that you can see part of "p----unish" in it! Bloviating regrets, Wordwind Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66193 04/18/2002 6:11 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass fwiw, I think bloviate is too broad for this use. senators who filibuster are just bloviating. (to orate verbosely or windily ) Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66194 04/18/2002 6:23 PM Anonymous Unregistered Anonymous Unregistered huh? AHD defines 'bloviate' thusly: To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner seems there's an integral element of self-importance -- manifested in euphuistic verbage -- to bloviating. 'course, i'm just feeling argumentative since you slammed my pitiful philosophical knowledge in I&A Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66195 04/18/2002 7:09 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass <To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner> AHD vs. <to orate verbosely or windily> W3 oh no! what'll we do now? I guess, after causing this digression, I'm obligated to come up with an alternate... () Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66196 04/18/2002 7:17 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass a wordmonger, through excessive lucubrations, is in danger of becoming known as an ergotist. -joe (signifying nothing) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66197 04/18/2002 8:19 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... However, combine bloviate with picayunish, and you've got a the person in question: The person-in-question bloviating picayunishly. How's zat? DubDub Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66198 04/18/2002 10:41 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Welcome, bowhaus! And thanks for the intriguing post! Hope you stick around for more! How about mendacious?...close, but not quite. The Only WO'N! Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66199 04/19/2002 1:38 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 Bobyoungbalt veteran Bobyoungbalt veteran Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 How about a nice simple word: showoff ? Copy Link to Clipboard Re: have definition; looking for word #66200 04/19/2002 3:53 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 618 Australia doc_comfort addict doc_comfort addict Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 618 Australia How about a nice simple word v2: Jerk Copy Link to Clipboard Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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