When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
--Albert Brooks
--Billboard Art Project, Birmingham AL
DEFINITION:
Noun
One who writes obituaries
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
Greek (nekros- "dead", + -graph "to write")
PRONUNCIATION:
[nek·cro·grah·fur]
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SCRABBLE SCORE:
20!
USAGE/EXAMPLES:
“What Twysden read in the Globe was a mere curt paragraph; but in next morning's Times there was one of those obituary notices to which noblemen of eminence must submit from the mysterious NECROGRAPHER engaged by that paper of eminence must submit from the mysterious necrographer engaged by that paper."
--Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
by William Makepeace Thackeray, Delphi Classics, 2013
"At this time, his only training in economics consisted, according to his NECROGRAPHER, in his reading of a set of the complete works of Bastiat given him by his uncle on the occasion of his final degree. Consequently, Gide had a fresh viewpoint on economics."
--The Rise of the Marginal Utility School, 1870-1889
by Richard S. Howey, 1989
--themarketingsage.com
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