English

Noun

proverbiologist ‎(plural proverbiologists)

1. (rare) A person who studies proverbs.
   • 1976, Dale Boesky, "Proverbs and Psychoanalysis," Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 45, p. 539:

     The proverbiologist uses syntactic, dialectal, metric, or linguistic aspects of the proverb to study its origin, spread, and evolution.

Related terms

• proverbiology

References

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