phillumenist

From phil- (“love of”) + Latin lumen (“light”) + -ist.

There is a new and happy breed, the Phillumenists, better known as Match-box Label collectors.

1948 May, A. J. Cruse, “I am a Phillumenist: Match-Box Labels as a Hobby”, in Chambers's Journal, page 238:

To be a real phillumenist, however, requires that one take his assorted books and "shuck" them, "press" them, and then categorize them according to subject, era, size, and maker.

1984, Stephen Hughes, Pop Culture Mania: Collecting 20th-Century Americana for Fun and Profit, New York: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, →OL, page 207:

This matchbox is a Swedish safety match from the Jönköping match factory. It's manufactured in 1858, just in time for the American Civil War. I like it very much. I guess that makes me something of a phillumenist.

2012 January 23, Jennifer Johnson, “Kit Nelson” (30:10 from the start), in Alcatraz, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Edwin James (Jonny Coyne):

A person who collects match-related items, like matchbox labels, matchboxes, matchbooks, or matchbook covers.


numismatist

One who studies and/or collects coins and/or currencies.

錢幣學家 /钱币学家

one who collects coins and/or currencies


bibliophile

First attested in 1824. From French bibliophile, from Ancient Greek βιβλίον (biblíon, “paper, document, tablet”) + φίλος (phílos, “beloved”). By surface analysis, biblio- + -phile.

uder

why buy a book when you can join a library

A bad example often finds imitators, and every season there crop up for public sale one or two such collections formed by bibliomaniacs who, although calling themselves bibliophiles, ought really to be ranked among the worst enemies of books.

1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 97:

[A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...

2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28:

bibliofiel

person who loves books — see also book lover

One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.


oenophile

The oenophile had a large wine cellar stocked with bottles from around the world.

With this kind of experience and depth in the wine cellar, the servers can offer exotic flights and other temptations for oenophiles that few Orange County restaurants can equal.

2008 December, Anne Valdespino, “Mr. Stox”, in Orange Coast, volume 34, number 12, →ISSN, page 139:

Wines can be described with words like cigar box and “pencil lead,” or flinty or with hints of sandalwood — oenophiles can veer into what many might deem pretentiousness pretty quick.

2023 March 24, Laura Reiley, “Could nonalcoholic wine be the toast of the town?”, in The Washington Post:

A person who has a fondness or appreciation for wine.


detectorist

Detectorists may also carry headphones, a metal detecting shovel, hand tools such as a hori-hori (a serrated, steel hand shovel), a “finds pouch,” and a hand-held precision detector called a pinpointer.

2021 May 31, Alexandra Marvar, “The New Detectorists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A person whose hobby is the use of a metal detector to search for buried coins, etc.


audiophile

However, almost every serious audiophile or electronics hobbyist already knows that bar/graph displays are close to useless for the application they are most commonly used for, which is the attempt to indicate output power levels of audio power amplifiers.

2001, G. Randy Slone, The Audiophile's Project Sourcebook: 120 High-Performance Audio Electronics Projects, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 246:

A person with an interest in high fidelity music and/or sound reproduction and its associated technology.


cruciverbalist

From cruci- (“cross”) + verbal (“words”) + -ist (“agent, person”), from Latin roots crux (“cross”) and verbum (“word”).

confix

A person who constructs or solves crosswords.


arctophile

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos
Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos)lbor.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰílos
Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos)bor.
Latin -philalbor.
English -phile
English arctophile
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”) + English -phile.

lbor

On the other hand I am appalled by the ways these "arctophiles" seem to feel for their childhood friends not an informed, reminiscent emotion, but exactly what they felt at 6 with no development at all.

1969 October 15, Gillian Tindall, “The bear facts”, in The Guardian (Woman’s Guardian section), London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2, “Love letters”:

One who has a fondness for teddy bears, usually a collector of them.


tegestologist

someone who collects beer mats or coasters


rhykenologist

From Ancient Greek ρυκανή (rukanḗ, “a woodworking plane”) (hence Lat. runcina)

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Bring your interesting planes to describe or share results of current research with other rhykenologists.

1987, in Shavings, published by the Early American Industries Association

A person who collects woodworking planes.


museophile

From Greek mouseîon (seat of the Muses), μουσείον, museum, + -phile.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:museophile.


lepidopterist

Someone who studies lepidoptery; someone who studies butterflies and moths.


vexillophile

Flags with conservative meanings were flown outside Justice Samuel Alito’s home and beach house, apparently by the justice’s vexillophile wife.

2024, Michael Linhorst, The Supreme Court Is on Collision Course With Its Ethics Struggles, in: The New Republic, September 30 2024

A person who collects and displays flags.

A person who studies flags and their history and meaning.


do-it-yourselfer

During the past year or so, numerous new books have been published which can be helpful to do‐it‐yourselfers and home craftsmen, as well as to those readers on the lookout for new ideas and money‐saving suggestions on how to improve and maintain their homes and apartments.

1974 December 29, Bernard Gladstone, “New Books for Do‐It‐Yourselfers”, in The New York Times:

Since the store's opening last November, do-it-yourselfers in the Washington area have been coming to Brookstone for tools and gadgets they have not been able to find anywhere else.

1981 April 4, “THRIVING ON DO-IT YOURSELFERS”, in The New York Times:

And it does seem that everything at the company is moving faster these days. Mr. Nardelli, who calls himself the "consummate do-it-yourselfer," has spent the last seven months installing management systems that Home Depot had never before imagined, and pressing the fast-forward button on ones it had just begun to consider.

2001 July 29, Claudia H. Deutsch, “A Do-It-Yourselfer Takes On Home Depot”, in The New York Times:


geocacher

From geocache + -er. First attested in 2000. See additional etymology at geocache.

Couple of geocachers found a floater at Wilson's Pond about an hour ago. Nasty. The perp took her tongue and her face. [...]

2008, Colleen Coble, Abomination, page 20:

Whatever a cache leads to, the process of finding the cache will usually stir the geocacher's curiosity to the point of learning something. As geocachers learn more about the area in which they are caching, they will have a natural tendency to pay attention to the setting and their surroundings.

2010, J. Kevin Taylor, DuAnn Kremer, Katherine Pebworth, Peter Werner, Geocaching for Schools and Communities, Human Kinetics, page 20:

Like any outdoor activity, geocaching involves some inherent risk, and many geocachers enjoy manageable risks.

2011, Terry Marsh, Geocaching in the UK, page 113:

A person who hides or seeks objects as part of the pastime of geocaching.

geokätköilijä

person who hides or seeks objects as part of the sport of geocaching


videophile

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A connoisseur of video, particularly one who values high-definition and otherwise high-quality video


oologist

a person who studies or specializes in oology


phraseologist

The author of Poetæ Rusticantis literatum Otium is but a mere phraseologist, the philological publisher is but a translator; but I expected better usage from Mr. Abel Roper, who is an original.

1802, Alexander Chalmers, The British Essayists: The Guardian, page 204:

They have descriptive powers, write charmingly, and tickle our sense of profundity with high-wounding dogmas and moral theories, which seem, indeed, plausible enough; but on comparing the description with the work describe, we find, now unfrequently, that the eloquent and dainty phraseologist could not distinguish between ugly and handsome, valueless fact and vital truth, archæology and imagination, good painting and bad; and when we meditate on the moral basis of his aesthetical theories, we find them, in all likelihood, something one-sided, ungenial, contracted, ascetic; their evil influence being indeed traceable in the falsely cramped and rigid lines of the pencils led by them.

1865 December, “Mr. Church's Pictures”, in Eclectic Magazine, volume 2, page 692:

In these works Mr. Hardy writes an English of strength and purity, with an almost Latin clearness and weight of words, avoiding for the most part the temptation to be too curious a phraseologist, which has sometimes proved too much for him.

1911, Lionel Pigot Johnson, Thomas Whittemore, Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers, page 148:

When the officers of the corps made him a visit, he made us no speech; he was not a phraseologist by nature, he spoke but little, but what he said always made an impression, because it came from the heart.

1911, Elzéar Blaze, Recollections of an Officer of Napoleon's Army, page 196:

The phraseologist of that ominous question is a southern gentleman named Chanler, who was at one time "convicted" in New York of being out of his in wits and incarcerated an insane asylum .

1912 September 1, “Who is Luny Now?”, in The Engraver and Electrotyper, volume 16, number 9, page 14:

A phraseologist like Sinatra overlays the metre with something like confiding speech.

2018, Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence:

A writer or speaker who coins clever phrases; One who is eloquent.

Another correspondent, who has 'completed [his] education in the language of Tully, the philosophy of Voltaire, and the amplification of Dr. Johnson, the great Lexiconian phraseologist,' aspires to become the dramatic critic of the journal alluded to, and give the following taste of his quality:

1874 August, “Orient Pearls at Random Strung”, in Tinsley's Magazine, volume 15, page 201:

At the other end there is the phraseologist's view that at least one member of the collocation has to be restricted (Howarth 1998b).

2009, Roberta Corrigan, Formulaic Language - Volume 2, page 329:

In the meantime Valerii Mokienko (1997) has followed my request and published an article on the phrase, indicating that it also entered the Russian language by way of the Anglo-American route, and the Canadian phraseologist Elizabeth Dawes (2007) took up the challenge in her detailed survey outlining the modern loan translation of the phrase into French and Italian (also mentioning the English and German situation once again) and stressing the polysemanticity of it in contextualized references.

2014, Wolfgang Mieder, Behold the Proverbs of a People:

I cannot guarantee that I did not miss items that another phraseologist would have wanted to include.

2020, Elisabeth Piirainen, Natalia Filatkina, Sören Stumpf, Formulaic Language and New Data, page 204:

Two further aspects should be underlined: (a) the terminologist is generally also a 'phraseologist' and (b) the task of the terminologist is now recognised as a bona fide job within certain companies.

2007, Daniel Gouadec, Translation as a Profession, page 116:

It is particularly problematic for the phraseologist to presuppose that a modification is properly understood when the reader has been able to work out all the elements/information that the phraseologist has detected in the modification, for it might even go far beyond what the producer, always under time pressure, intended in the first place.

2014, Sylvia Jaki, Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines, page 102:

One who specializes in phraseological details of a field.


lotologist

Possibly lotology + -ist, or lot(tery) + -ologist.

[Alfred] Ricks is a lotologist, one of a growing number of people who collect, study and admire lottery tickets – not for the prizes they promise, but for their art and value as collectors' items.

1998 August 23, Richard Stewart, “Hobby doesn’t start from scratch: Unused lottery tickets worth more than their prizes to collectors”, in The Houston Chronicle, Houston, Tex.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-05-02, section A, page 1:

Star Trek scratch-off tickets are probably the most valuable of all the California games because they are prized by thousands of Trekkies as well as "lotologists."

1998 October 22, “Resisting the Urge to Scratch”, in The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, Calif.: The McClatchy Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

Held this year in northeast Philadelphia, the gathering is an opportunity to meet other self-described "lotologists," trade tickets and take a gander at the never-ending multitude of collectible material.

2011 July 29, The Denver Post, Denver, Colo.: Digital First Media, published 3 May 2016 (updated), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-03-20:

Although most lotologists collect scratch tickets that have already been scratched, approximately 15% of lotologists collect unscratched tickets.

2014, Eric LeMay, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments, New York, N.Y.: Emergency Press, →ISBN:

A person who collects lottery tickets as a hobby.


cartophilist

A person who collects cigarette cards as a hobby.


conspirophile

1993 September 25, Chris Burian, "crime with computers?", alt.conspiracy/alt.society.civil-liberty https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.society.civil-liberty/5eRRUmy2XRo/NtJ-n4bdZGIJ (crossposted on both groups).
Being a conspirophile, I do see a connection between recent BBS porn busts, encryption busts, and even "anarchy" text-file busts. I also see them connected with Waco, S-8, and suggestions that the National Guard be used for border patrol.

2014 January 24, Desiree Erasmus, "Brethren, let us conspire", Hillcrest Fever: Your 24/7 local connection, page 6.
The NWO has been adopted by religious and secular conspirophiles alike and goes something like this: The world is secretly controlled by a small corporate-affiliated elite that belong to secret societies such as the Illuminati, Bilderbergers, Bohemian Grove and so on.

(very rare) A person who subscribes to conspiracy theories.


numismatician

One who studies and/or collects coins and/or currencies.