noun. A gaggle of peevologists: folks who are probably beating eggcorns to death with a tire iron right now.
Real citation: “Peeverazzi has a lot of appeal, for example, since it gets at how annoying those folks are and how worthless the substance of what they do. But a bunch more candidates have real promise, and this opens a big window to additional ideas.”
(July 17, 2007, Mr. Verb, http://mr-verb.blogspot.com/2007/07/peevology-and-its-semantic-field.html)
Made-up citation: "I'm a member of the peeverazzi when it comes to quotation marks used for emphasis--though I did enjoy seeing the ad for a nursing home where the 'person' comes first."
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