In the canon
A Dictionary of the English Language
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1755
- Pages
- Pages 640
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge. Johnson put that joke about himself into his own book, near the end of nine years in a garret off Fleet Street with six copyists and the whole of English to account for.
A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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