proverbiologist

English

Etymology

proverbiology +‎ -ist

Noun

proverbiologist (plural proverbiologists)

1. (rare) A person who studies proverbs.
   • 1976, Dale Boesky, “Proverbs and Psychoanalysis,”, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, volume 45, page 539:

     The proverbiologist uses syntactic, dialectal, metric, or linguistic aspects of the proverb to study its origin, spread, and evolution.

Related terms

• proverbiology

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.