StackExchange Friday: What's a Big Vocabulary Word for Someone with a Big Vocabulary?

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I like this meta stuff. Excerpts from: What's a Big Vocabulary Word for Someone with a Big Vocabulary?

"Sesquipedalian means 'of a foot and a half', it was originally used of words, meaning 'a foot and a half long', but if applied to a human being it would mean 'lacking half a foot' (and yes, I do know someone to whom it applies). – TimLymington Jul 19 '11 at 9:51"

"Vocabularian has the advantage of being quite adequately hoity-toity while also reasonably clear."

"You could go with "logophile", a lover of words."

And the accepted answer:
A lexicomane?  Literally: someone who’s mad about dictionaries…

"This seems to be too new and/or marginal a coinage to appear in the major dictionaries yet; but it’s made from standard parts, and made well, so should be easily comprehensible (certainly by any big-vocabulary-person), and seems to be gaining quite a bit of currency (googling it reveals plenty of use). On Wordnik."

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