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WORD OF THE DAY: Deipnosophist


Hotelier Middle East Staff, February 7th, 2010

Deipnosophist: (noun) A person with excellent dinner table conversation skills.

In a sentence:

Restaurant manager: That table has been roaring with laughter all evening, what’s going on?

Waiter: The man at the head of the table is quite a deipnosophist.

Restaurant manager: Well tell him to shut up, he’s ruining the other guests’ evening.

Waiter: What other guests?

Restaurant manager: I think I’m going to lose my job.

Waiter: It’s probably for the best sir.