Word-snotor

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - word-snotor

According to the Old English Dictionary:

word-snotor
adj. Expert in speech, eloquent, learned :-- Óslác, gamolfeax hæleð, wís and wordsnotor, Chr. 975 ; Erl. 126, 21. Lýfing se wordsnotera biscop, 1047; Erl. 171, 28. Wordsnoteran (Homerum), Hpt. Gl. 463, 53. Wordsnotere oratores, rhetores, grammatici, 481, 72. Wordsnoterum sapientium, 503, 67. Ne weorþeþ on wornlde ǽnig wordsnotera ne on wordum getingra, ðonne hé (Antichrist) wyrðeþ, Wulfst. 54, 21. word-snotor
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