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deipnosophist

NOUN
  1. someone skilled at informal chitchat

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  • -- deipnosophist, which means someone skilled at across the table chitchat. CNN Transcript May 28, 2003
  • The One reads the teleprompter well, but a deipnosophist he ain't. Latest Articles
  • A deipnosophist excels in conversations that take place where? Times, Sunday Times
  • The prudent deipnosophist mixes them into a gobbet with her mashed potato. Times, Sunday Times
  • Where do you find words like deipnosophist or anabiosis? Outlook India
  • An Italian deipnosophist is unlikely to get a nose-a-fist .. Latest Articles
  • The word deipnosophist is derived from Greek elements meaning 'meal' and 'wise man,' so we can assume it means someone wise in mealtime conversation...it could also just mean a gastronome, but if you spout it at a dinner party, I guarantee no one will ask you to which meaning you refer... everyone else will silently be trying to figure out if you've insulted them or not. Archive 2007-01-01
  • I think that deipnosophist is a good description of what Corey the Welldigger was not when Hannity called him about his letter to Nobama. Latest Articles
  • A typical example occurs (as one might expect) at the entry for deipnosophist where a line that normally contains about 50 characters (plus spaces), has been printed with only 34 characters (plus spaces), mainly, apparently, because no one knew where to hyphen Deipnosophistai, the first word on the next line. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
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