pedant
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Is pedant a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) A teacher or schoolmaster.Examples: "I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us."archaic
verb (English)
1. (rare, humorous) To be or act as a pedant.Examples: "[…] as any occasion of going behond^([sic – meaning beyond]) the sea with sombody, or pedanting in some Gentlemans house, &c., for clergy-employment I will accept of none."; "Tediously he pedanted, hedging around concerning the Perfect State, eventually coming out into the open with his own private Perfect State plan."; "‘Most people in this country aren’t Christian, the standard package should not be Christian,’ Gerrard pedanted."humorousrare
Definition source: Wiktionary