proverbiologist

English

Etymology

proverbiology +‎ -ist

Noun

proverbiologist (plural proverbiologists)

  1. (rare) A person who studies proverbs.
    • 1976, Dale Boesky, “Proverbs and Psychoanalysis,”, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, volume 45, page 539:
      The proverbiologist uses syntactic, dialectal, metric, or linguistic aspects of the proverb to study its origin, spread, and evolution.

References
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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