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quotemaster en · NOUN

Etymology

From quote + master.

Meanings

  1. (informal, rare) An expert in quotations.
    • “He needs to look in the mirror and see how big he is,” said Claudio Reyna, 34, the captain, who is becoming a quotemaster in his old age. 2008 April 28, George Vecsey, “An Identity Stuck in the Swamps of New Jersey”, in New York Times:
    • The quotemasters volley back and forth like Talmudic scholars, providing for every Soviet quotation an equal and opposite Soviet quotation. 1984, Edward Zuckerman, The Day After World War III, page 247:

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