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fictioneer
noun
a writer of fiction, especially a prolific one whose works are of mediocre quality.
More about fictioneer
The noun fictioneer is composed of the noun fiction and the noun suffix –eer denoting agency. The suffix is neutral in words like engineer and mountaineer, but it frequently has a pejorative sense, as in profiteer and racketeer. Fictioneer, too, has always had a hint of contempt in it: an early (1901) definition of fictioneer reads 鈥渁 writer of 鈥榤achine-made鈥� fiction.鈥� Fictioneer entered English in the early 20th century.
how is fictioneer used?
If you were not a fictioneer, if you did not place a monetary value on the efforts of your imagination, I should be inclined to think that you were lying ….
That was long ago, and she’s a grandmother today, but still she can toss around the lingo of the Wild West with a fluency that would be the envy of a Hollywood scenarist or a fictioneer of the great open spaces.
fecund
adjective
very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.
More about fecund
The English adjective fecund ultimately comes from Latin 蹿脓肠耻苍诲耻蝉 鈥渇ertile, productive,鈥� used of humans, animals, and plants. The first syllable聽蹿脓– is a Latin development of the Proto-Indo-European root 诲丑脓(颈)– 鈥渢o suck, suckle.鈥� From 蹿脓– Latin forms the derivatives 蹿脓l墨x 鈥渇ruitful, productive, fortunate, blessed, lucky鈥� (source of the English name Felix and felicity), 蹿脓mina 鈥渨oman鈥� (originally a feminine participle meaning 鈥渟uckling鈥�), 蹿脓tus 鈥減arturition, birth, conception, begetting, young (plant or animal), child,鈥� and 蹿墨濒颈耻蝉 and 蹿墨濒颈补 鈥渟on鈥� and 鈥渄aughter,鈥� respectively (and source of filial). 顿丑脓(颈)– appears in Greek as 迟丑脓(颈)-, as in 迟丑锚蝉迟丑补颈 鈥渢o suckle鈥� and 迟丑脓濒岣� 鈥渘ipple, teat鈥� (an element of the uncommon English noun thelitis 鈥渋nflammation of the nipple鈥�).聽Fecund entered English in the 15th century.
how is fecund used?
… he possesses a fecund imagination able to spin out one successful series after another ….
He sort of reminded me of Billy Name … the guy who pretty much functioned as the Factory’s foreman during its most fecund years.
More about jactation
Jactation comes straight from the Latin noun 箩补肠迟腻迟颈艒苍– (the inflectional stem of 箩补肠迟腻迟颈艒) 鈥渁 flinging or throwing about, a shaking or jolting, tossing of the waves at sea,鈥� and by extension, 鈥渇requent changing of one鈥檚 mind or attitude, boastfulness, grounds for boasting.鈥� 闯补肠迟腻迟颈艒 is a derivative of the verb 箩补肠迟腻谤别 鈥渢o throw, hurl, toss,鈥� a frequentative verb from jacere 鈥渢o throw, toss, sow (seed), cast (anchor).鈥� Jactation entered English in the 16th century.
how is jactation used?
Judge of my mortification, t’other day, when in a moment of jactation, I boasted of being born in that illustrious, ancient, and powerful kingdom!
Others see in them merely the jactation of a limited wit, which is nothing more.