quoter
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- noun
- /ˈkwōtər/
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- "As if there wasn't any doubt." The crowded man reaches for his island, the quoter continued.
Examples
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Quoters often paraphrase, and the context often adds meaning to the quotation itself.
Academic text (2009) -
Quacker, quoter, quarter!
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There is obviously little of substance there if it requires some creativity on the part of the quoter for you to make sense.
Blog text (28) -
Quacker, quoter, quarter!
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"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much" is often quoted, yet all the while the quoters forget that Desdemona was innocent.
Blog text (17) -
I agreed with the expert quoter that some children don't understand that cheating is wrong; they don't understand that cheating is not going to help them in life.
Blog text (26) -
I'm going to follow the approach of Numfar PTB and Quoter Gal on this one: deep abiding resentment towards the studio and Silver.
Blog text (18) -
"You want," he said, "to engage in talking with nature," even though he admitted, "it's not a natural world anymore." Keith, a quoter of Edward Abbey and the nephew of legendary ornithologist Stuart Keith, agreed when I asked him if he thought geoengineering could be considered the ultimate form of restoration ecology.
Academic text (2010) -
A good quoter can make any speech more impactful by choosing memorable phrases wisely.
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In her essays, she often cites famous philosophers, showing herself to be a diligent quoter.
Synonyms
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A person or thing that repeats sounds, words and ideas from others
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Quoter comes from the common word quote, which originally meant to 'mark' a passage so people could point to the exact words. So a quoter is someone who picks out and repeats other people's words.