"Scrabblist" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Scrabblists [plural]
Etymology: From Scrabble + -ist. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|Scrabble|-ist}} Scrabble + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} Scrabblist (plural Scrabblists)
  1. (rare) A player of the word game Scrabble. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Scrabble Synonyms: Scrabbler

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From Scrabble + -ist.",
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        {
          "ref": "1974, Douglas Fowler, Reading Nabokov:",
          "text": "These [wordplay] curiosities are not in themselves difficult to construct, nor does their solution provide anything much deeper than the solver's thrill, that quite minor delight that the crossword-puzzler or Scrabblist derives from his addiction.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Ann Patty, Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin, New York, NY: Penguin Books, published 2017, page 99",
          "text": "I didn't even have to leave my desk to indulge in my new addiction: online Scrabble. […] I'd begun playing with accomplished Scrabblists, and soon I was ranked thirty-second among my Facebook “friends”—twenty notches lower than those who had never even played.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Mark Seindenberg, Language at the Speed of Sight",
          "text": "Unlike Scrabblists, spelling champions […] know the meanings of many of the words and have studied etymology and […] morphology. They read dictionaries, not lists of six-letter words containing j, k, or q, suggesting the knowledge they acquire has greater utility.",
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        "(rare) A player of the word game Scrabble."
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          "ref": "2016, Ann Patty, Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin, New York, NY: Penguin Books, published 2017, page 99",
          "text": "I didn't even have to leave my desk to indulge in my new addiction: online Scrabble. […] I'd begun playing with accomplished Scrabblists, and soon I was ranked thirty-second among my Facebook “friends”—twenty notches lower than those who had never even played.",
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