phrasemaker

English

Etymology

From phrase +‎ maker.

Noun

phrasemaker (plural phrasemakers)

1. A crafter of phrases; one who pens bombast or rhetoric.
   • 2007 January 28, William Safire, “100 Hours”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But even as you read this, some sharp political phrasemaker is working on a paragraph that begins “Not in a hundred days, not in a hundred hours, but in a hundred New York minutes .

   • 2021 January 1, Paul Krugman, “Things Will Get Better. Seriously.”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     As the entrepreneur Peter Thiel — whose politics I loathe, but who’s a good phrasemaker — put it, it was an era in which we wanted flying cars but got 140 characters instead.