phrasemaker

English

Etymology

phrase + maker

Noun

phrasemaker (plural phrasemakers)

  1. A crafter of phrases; one who pens bombast or rhetoric.
    • 2007 January 28, William Safire, “100 Hours”, in New York Times:
      But even as you read this, some sharp political phrasemaker is working on a paragraph that begins “Not in a hundred days, not in a hundred hours, but in a hundred New York minutes .
    • 2021 January 1, Paul Krugman, “Things Will Get Better. Seriously.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      As the entrepreneur Peter Thiel — whose politics I loathe, but who’s a good phrasemaker — put it, it was an era in which we wanted flying cars but got 140 characters instead.
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