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deipnosophist [dahyp-NOS-uh-fist]

noun
-a person who is an adept conversationalist at table
-someone skilled at informal chitchat

a person who is a master of dinner-table conversation

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deipnosophist
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/deipnosophist

While my family knows that my sister just talks too much, others often think that she is a friendly deipnosophist.



I finally start accumulating a list of words and I leave them in another country. Sigh.

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Date: 2010-01-26 12:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stagknight.livejournal.com
At first I read that as dipsosophist, which I guess would be one of those people who thinks they're an absolute genius when they're drunk...

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Date: 2010-01-26 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-daizy.livejournal.com
If that's not a word, it absolutely needs to become one. Someone call Stephen Colbert!
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