pedant

suomi-englanti sanakirja

pedant englannista suomeksi

1. saivartelija, pedantti, viisastelija, pedantikko

0. Substantiivi

1. saivartelija, viisastelija, pedantti

2. viisastelija, saivartelija

2. Verbi

pedant englanniksi

1. A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.

2. A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.

3. A teacher or schoolmaster.

4. (RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes)

5. Pedantic.

6. To be or act as a pedant.

7. (quote-book) as any occasion of going behond(sic) the sea with sombody, or pedanting in some Gentlemans house, &c., for clergy-employment I will accept of none.

8. (quote-journal)

9. (quote-book)

10. (quote-book) Blarcch Beletchian pedanted at them, “there is not enough room for bodies to lie in a small space like a closet. Unless they were midgets like this person, or their limbs were detachable, or the closet was a gateway to eleven-dimensional space, or –” / “Oh, great!” TOM put in. “We got a literalist, here!”

11. (RQ:Guardian)

12. (quote-book) Whether he succeeded or not is not known, but others certainly ended up ‘pedanting’.

13. (l) (gloss)

14. a (l) (someone pedantic)

(syn)

15. pedantic

16. (inflection of)

17. teacher; tutor; educator

18. pedant

19. freak, freak, out-and-outer, (l), prig, stickler (gl)

(ant)

20. a (l) (someone pedantic)