Home › Words › P › phraseologistphraseologistphraseologist means A writer or speaker who coins clever phrases; One who is eloquent.EtymologyFrom phraseology + -ist.nounA writer or speaker who coins clever phrases; One who is eloquent.e.g.“The author of Poetæ Rusticantis literatum Otium is but a mere phraseologist, the philological publisher is but a translator; but I expected better usage from Mr. Abel Roper, who is an original.” — 1802, Alexander Chalmers, The British Essayists: The Guardian, page 204:One who studies or collects phrasesOne who specializes in phraseological details of a field.e.g.“Two further aspects should be underlined: (a) the terminologist is generally also a 'phraseologist' and (b) the task of the terminologist is now recognised as a bona fide job within certain companies.” — 2007, Daniel Gouadec, Translation as a Profession, page 116:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).