rhyparograph

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥύπος (rhúpos, “filth”) +‎ -graph.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpæ.ɹə.ɡɹɑːf/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpæ.ɹə.ɡɹæf/

Noun

rhyparograph (plural rhyparographs)

1. A painter of sordid or distasteful subjects.
   • 1985, H. B. Nisbet, editor, German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism:

     And Pyreicus, who painted, with all the diligence of a Dutch artist, nothing but barbers' shops, filthy factories, donkeys and cabbages as if that kind of thing had so much charm in Nature and were so rarely to be seen, got the nickname of the rhyparograph, the dirt-painter, although the luxurious rich weighed his works against gold, to help out their merit by this imaginary value.

Related terms

• rhyparographer
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