wordlore
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From word + lore. Compare Old English wordlār (“verbal teaching or instruction”).
Noun edit
wordlore (uncountable)
- (uncommon) The science, study, or knowledge of words.
- Coordinate terms: lexicography, lexicology, philology
- 1910, Ruth Sawyer, Poet lore:
- Morris mastered the secrets of English wordlore as much better than Shakespeare as the manifold development of the science of language (speechlore) natually enabled him to do.
- 1989, American Psychological Association, Psyc books: Volume 2:
- Alcohol wordlore and folklore: Being a compendium of linguistic and social fact and fantasy associated with the use […]