verb-grinder n.
a nit-picking school master.
Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) II 165: The verb-grinder engendered in his noddle a most ingenious device [...] The scheme was no other than to flog me. | (trans.)
a nit-picking school master.
Adventures of Gil Blas (1822) II 165: The verb-grinder engendered in his noddle a most ingenious device [...] The scheme was no other than to flog me. | (trans.)