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pedant

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ped·ant /ˈpednt/ noun [countable]  RULE/REGULATIONsomeone who pays too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details, especially someone who criticizes other people in an extremely annoying way 拘泥于规则[细节]的人;学究,书呆子 ‘That’s not exactly what it means.’ ‘Pedant.’ 不完全是那个意思。”“书呆子。pedantry noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
pedantIt is the work of a pedant, and shows no originality.Anyway, Oliver's a pedant.He's a great pedant, Oliver.He claims that he was a little pedant, even as early as the age of five.A right little pedant she can be, when it comes to an intellectual argument.True pedants add the proviso that an edge can not also be a node.
Origin pedant (1500-1600) French pédant, from Italian pedante, perhaps from Latin paedagogus; → PEDAGOGY
ped·ant nounChineseSyllable
too Corpus much to someone who attention to or rules pays


pedant
pedant /ˈpednt/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1500-1600
 Language: French
 Origin: pédant, from Italian pedante, perhaps from Latin paedagogus; pedagogy
someone who pays too much attention to rules or to small unimportant details, especially someone who criticizes other people in an extremely annoying way:
    ‘That’s not exactly what it means.’ ‘Pedant.’
—pedantry noun [uncountable]


ped·antBrE /ˈpednt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpednt/ 🔊 noun (disapproving) a person who is too concerned with small details or rules especially when learning or teaching 迂夫子;书呆子;学究