fabler
English
Etymology
Noun
fabler (plural fablers)
- A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, “Aprill”, in The Shepherd’s Calendar[1], London:
- […] certain fine fablers and lowd lyers, such as were the Authors of King Arthure the great and such like, who tell many an vnlawfull leasing of the Ladyes of the Lake, that is, the Nymphes.
- 1849, Henry David Thoreau, “Wednesday”, in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers[2], Boston: James Munroe, page 279:
- No wonder that the Mythology, and Arabian Nights, and Shakespeare, and Scott’s novels, entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and dramatists and novelists ourselves.
- 2015, John Irving, chapter 25, in Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster:
- Clark insisted that Juan Diego was “on the imagination’s side”; Juan Diego was a “fabler, not a memoirist,” Clark said.
Translations
writer or teller of fables
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Anagrams
Danish
Noun
fabler c pl
- indefinite plural of fabel
Verb
fabler
- present of fable
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
fabler m
- indefinite plural of fabel
Swedish
Noun
fabler
- indefinite plural of fabel