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fictioneer | Word of the Day
June 04, 2019
fictioneer
[fik-sh
uh
-
neer
]
noun
1.
a writer of fiction, especially a prolific one whose works are of mediocre quality.
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WORD OF THE DAY
fictioneer
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QUOTES
If you were not a
fictioneer
, if you did not place a monetary value on the efforts of your imagination, I should be inclined to think that you were lying ....
-- Theodore Goodridge Roberts, "The Whisper,"
Munsey's Magazine
, Vol. 54, 1915
ORIGIN
The noun
fictioneer
is composed of the noun
fiction
and the noun suffix -
eer
denoting agency. The suffix is neutral in words like
engineer
and
mountaineer
, but it frequently has a pejorative sense, as in
profiteer
and
racketeer
.
Fictioneer
, too, has always had a hint of contempt in it: an early (1901) definition of
fictioneer
reads "a writer of 'machine-made' fiction."
Fictioneer
entered English in the early 20th century.
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