pedant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 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
pedant• It 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; → PEDAGOGYped·ant nounChineseSyllable
too Corpus much to someone who attention to or rules pays
pedant
ped‧ant /ˈpednt/
noun [countable]
‘That’s not exactly what it means.’ ‘Pedant.’
—pedantry noun [uncountable]
ped‧ant /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:Language: French
Origin: pédant, from Italian pedante, perhaps from Latin paedagogus; ⇨ pedagogy
—pedantry noun [uncountable]