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deipnosophist
deep-NOS-o-fist
noun
a person who chatters while eating; meal time conversationalist
1898Lord George Gordon ByronThe Letters and Journals of Lord ByronHe was famous for his 'mob dinners,' to which Moore probably refers when he writes to Byron, in an undated letter, of the 'Deipnosophist Kinnaird.'

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