According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a word-pecker is “a person who trifles or plays with, or quibbles over, words.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Word-Peckers”
I always love it when I’m looking through the dictionary and I just stumble across a word I’ve never seen before and I quickly add it to my own vocabulary.
This time the term is wordpecker.
All right, so it’s wordpecker, W-O-R-D-P-E-C-K-E-R.
Right. There’s a hyphen in the middle of it and it’s defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as a person who trifles or plays with or quibbles over words.
And I think we’re all wordpeckers here.
Well, yeah, but I think I hear a notion of pedant in there, which isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Not necessarily, but I’m looking at some of the old citations for it.
And one of them is a punster, one who plays upon words.
Well, take your two index fingers or your two thumbs and get out that phone and call or text toll free 877-929-9673.
