Battologist

/bəˈtɒlədʒɪst/ noun

Definition

A person who speaks or writes with tedious, needless repetition.

Etymology

Derived from battology plus the agent noun suffix -ist, describing someone who practices or specializes in battological speech.

Kelly Says

Calling someone a battologist is the fancy, cutting way to say they're a bore—it's the kind of obscure insult that only people who read ancient rhetoric texts would recognize, making it perfectly suited for academic roasting.

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