10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIMBROMANIAC»
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timbromaniac in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
timbromaniac and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Routledges Every Boy's Annual
... sound moral fi* the new taste ; but as the object of this paper is rather to giw *»
readers some idea of the magnitude of the stamp business, we refe for the
present from pointing out the many beneficial pleasure* ' timbromaniac should
enjoy.
2
Every Little Boy's Book: A Complete Cyclopædia of in and ...
Another competent timbromaniac puts them down at between thirteen and
fourteen hundred. We would, taking everything into consideration, prefer Dr.
Gray's calculation. A full exposition of his reasons for giving this number will be
found in the ...
3
Mason's Monthly Coin and Stamp Collectors' Magazine
Should the provinces remain under Prussian domination, they will, of course, be
superseded by the issue of that authority: should the French succeed in' rescuing
them from the enemy's clutches, we presume the most philatelic timbromaniac ...
4
Chambers English Thesaurus
... scripophilist sericulturist Sinophile Slavophile spelaeologist steganographist
stegophilist supematuralist tege(s)tologist timbrologist timbromaniac timbrophilist
tulipomane tulipomaniac Turcophile ufologist ultramontanist vexillologist virtuoso
...
5
There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent ...
... matchbooks and matchboxes. philographer: (fi-LAHG-ruh-fur) autographs.
plangonologist: (PLAN-juh-NAHL-uh-jist) dolls. tegestologist: (TEJ-es-TAHL-uh-
jist) beer coasters and bar mats. timbromaniac: (TIM-bruh-MAY-nee-ak) another
term ...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2005
6
Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Ex:tichodrome, awallcreeper(cfdrome). tigro: fromtigroid, striped asatiger, but
denoting 'tigroid granules', asintigrolysis (cf lysisatlyse). timbro: F timbro, from
timbre, apostagestamp, as in timbromaniac, onewho is'mad' on postage stamps.
7
The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...
Into English, in the 17th and 18th c., came words relating to stamp collecting-
timbrology, timbrophile, timbromaniac-which were supplanted by philately, etc.
See kcr I; tol. Probably from this root came tip: a projection; also tip: to push over,
...
Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2001
8
The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete ...
(Timbromaniac was the word originally proposed for a stamp collector, but it
quickly got licked by philatelist.) When my fears subsided, I began to wonder how
the Postal Service could allow its spokesperson to mispronounce this word.
Charles Harrington Elster, 2006
So, if you remember that the French for stamp is timbre, you'll begin to appreciate
why another name for a stamp collector is timbromaniac. The word philatelist was
coined from the Greek by a Continental collector who thought it sounded more ...
Bernard Black Wicksteed, 1947
10
The London Philatelist
Premising that the hobby was a scientific pursuit, the lecturer dwelt on the
threefold division of Philatelic humanity into the ignoramus, the timbromaniac,
and the Philatelist proper or collector, who found in stamps an intelligent interest
and a ...
