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deipnosophist

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deip⋅nos⋅o⋅phist

[dahyp-nos-uh-fist]
–noun
a person who is an adept conversationalist at table.

Origin:
1650–60; after a literary work by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, an expert in affairs of the kitchen, equiv. to Gk deîpno(n) meal + sophists sophist
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